Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:23:02 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Better SNR suggestion for the mailing lists Message-ID: <19980904002302.28650@follo.net> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzpbtowsvjl=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Fri=2C_Sep_04=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_12=3A03=3A58AM_%2B0200?= References: <35EF0C6D.C3ACAD5F@netvision.net.il> <xzpbtowsvjl.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 12:03:58AM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il> 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. The problem with this is the same as requiring subscriptions for posting at all - a lot of us are subscribed through different accounts than we post from (I, for instance, am subscribed through my FreeBSD.ORG account except for the lists where I made a mistake), and it is not very practical to have to post through those addresses. I think a moderated list for architecture discussions is a better way of handling this, and have thus volunteered to moderate one (I'd like not to have to, but it seems like the only way to get a really good list). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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