From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 22:53:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA23172 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:53:05 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA23162 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:52:54 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA21961; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:52:50 +0800 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:52:50 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups In-Reply-To: <199504232330.QAA28279@ref.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > > 'questions' is gated to the news group by being sent to an alias > 'news' > > all 'news' items have the following headder tacked on the FRONT of them > before being gated to usenet: > > **************************************************************************** > * This article has been forwarded to USENET from the FreeBSD-questions * > * mailing list. It's appearance here on USENET is for informational * > * purposes only. Replies to USENET on this topic will NOT be seen * > * by the original posters. to reply, send mail to: * > * FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org * > * send mail to majordome@FreeBSD.org, stating 'help' for more information * ^^^^^^^^^(majordomo) > **************************************************************************** Eek! Do you really want to add another ~600 bytes to every message gated from freebsd-questions to the newsgroup? Wouldn't a weekly FAQ with instructions on joining the mailing lists be enough? Or at least shorten the banner to something like: [ Reposted from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list! To subscribe to this ] [ list, send mail to majordomo@freebsd.org with "help" in message body. ] ... and set Reply-To: to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org like someone else mentioned. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org