From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 7 1:41:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail48.fg.online.no (mail48-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214A337B408 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 01:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from online.no (kunde4141.alfanett.no [195.134.62.117]) by mail48.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26608 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 10:41:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3CD79198.C8403676@online.no> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 10:34:32 +0200 From: Tore Lund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: You've Been Added! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andy Sporner wrote: > > Aragon Gouveia wrote: > > >Can this sender be rejected at the MTA? > > > > Better Idea, how about changing MajorDomo to accept mail only from people > registered on the list. OK. This would inconvience some people. But in > addition > to this, as most people are, I am also getting tired of the sex > advertisements. The reason for the inconvenience is that the list technology is behind the times. Many other lists - like Yahoo! groups - have options like NOMAIL and neat ways to peruse messages online. With such improvements in place, anyone wanting to post could be a member without having to receive all that mail. Or, one could have a dedicated FreeBSD news server with all the lists on it in the form of newsgroups. (I have a hunch this too would reduce the spam, but I don't know by how much in the long run.) FreeBSD takes pride in being "on the bleeding edge", but it needs to be said that in some ways it is all too pleased with outdated features, like that list server. Writing this as a non-member, -- Tore To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message