From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 3 15:05:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01758 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01749 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:05:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id AAA05421; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:04:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:03:59 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Yoav Cohen-Sivan Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Better SNR suggestion for the mailing lists References: <35EF0C6D.C3ACAD5F@netvision.net.il> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 04 Sep 1998 00:03:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: Yoav Cohen-Sivan's message of "Fri, 04 Sep 1998 00:38:53 +0300" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA01754 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yoav Cohen-Sivan writes: > My suggestion is to change most of the mailing lists to a "can't post > for a week after you subscribe" mode. Anybody who is serious enough > about a subject will lurk for a while just to get a feel, anyway. We can > leave -questions, -newbies, -chat and -advocacy open. The latter two are > meant for this kind of drivel. We definetely don't want to discourage > newcomers by forcing them to wait a week for any help, so -questions and > -newbies must stay open. People there should expect many "stupid" > questions, that's why they are there helping. I second this suggestion. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message