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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:46:42 +0100
From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Strathclyde
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Hi,

Is -muiltimedia still closed so you need to subscribe before you
can post?

I'd like it open again, as it used to be.

Few reasons.
1) We only ever have one or two Windows 95/98/NT questions a month.
   And I usually reply direct to the author with the answer anyway.

   (I reply with a friendly comment about a) what FreeBSD is, b) where
   the correct place to post/search is and c) I often know the
   answer anyway as I have Win95/98/NT 4 boxes with Bt848's based
   grabbers and do some Video for Windows API development.

2) In Europe, local calls (to your ISP) are not free. email costs me
money.
   freebsd-muiltimedia is low traffic, but subscribing increases the
   amount of mail you need to download, when usually the reply you
   wanted is CC'ed to the original author anyway.

I'd like the group back open again.

This time, we could generate some stats on Windows posts and just see
how
frequently they occur.
Perhaps those that reply with abusive comments about Microsoft
operating systems could just ignore Windows posts.


Roger Hardiman

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