Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:40:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Handley <mjh@east.isi.edu>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: windows 98 Message-ID: <19980702084032.L10452@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4458.899321082@north.lcs.mit.edu>; from Mark Handley on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:24:42PM -0400 References: <199807011757.MAA19802@plains.NoDak.edu> <4458.899321082@north.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wednesday, 1 July 1998 at 15:24:42 -0400, Mark Handley wrote: > >> Joe User uses their web browser to search one of the many web search engine >> for the card they have a problem with...up comes a FreeBSD page that talks >> about the driver written for FreeBSD. Joe User sees (in Charlie Brown style) >> WAA, WAA, WAA, (his card), WAA, WAA, WAA, WAA (mailing list name). >> Joe User send message to mailling list. >> >> It is annoying to see M$ questions, but Joe User is not informed enough to >> know that your web page is not close enough to what he wants to know. I get >> them all the time. > > The technological solution to this problem would be to only allow > postings from members of the list. Non-members would get a reply that > politely explains what the mailing list is for, what FreeBSD is, and > that if they're still interested and try again, their mail _will_ be > forwarded to the list. The list server would keep a cache of > non-members that mailed in the last 48 hrs, and allow them to post to > the list without being a member. > > It would also serve as a simple spam filter as most spammers don't > read the replies or use a fake reply-to address. On -questions, at any rate, we certainly *don't* want this. But I suppose we could have different policies for different lists. jmb? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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