From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 7 1:47: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D254B37B405 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 01:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D0CDFA804; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:46:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFD2542D; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:46:59 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 18:46:59 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: Tore Lund Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: You've Been Added! In-Reply-To: <3CD79198.C8403676@online.no> Message-ID: <20020507184544.I67770-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 7 May 2002, Tore Lund wrote: > 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. I'm not sure evryone would agree with you on that but either way you do know you can read the list on the web? > 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.) ...and annoy those people with only mail access. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message