Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:51:22 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@efn.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If you come only once, you've been cheated. Message-ID: <20010104165122.A87262@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101040900320.368-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:04:01AM -0400 References: <20010104101456.A77019@mithrandr.moria.org> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101040900320.368-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Thu 2001-01-04 (09:04), The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > It can't be a closed list. Think about it - it is for people who have > > questions. The people who are subscribed are interested in answering > > questions, or seeing questions and answers. > > Odd, every one of the PostgreSQL mailing lists are closed lists and are > reasonably high traffic ... we even have a bi-directional news<->mail > gateway ... Does it also have like 300 mails a day? Are there people really willing to subscribe for a few minutes, then post, then hurry to unsubscribe to prevent a mail flood? The questions@FreeBSD.org mail address is on countless pages, and there's no possible reason we'd want to bog someone or a group of people down for up to 50 or 75 or 100 approvals a day due to getting spam once every few days. It's very important to be inclusive and accessible to our users, and to have the costs of getting help as low as possible. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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