From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jul 1 16:11:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11608 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11554; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA13057; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:40:32 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980702084032.L10452@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:40:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Handley , Mark Tinguely Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: windows 98 References: <199807011757.MAA19802@plains.NoDak.edu> <4458.899321082@north.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <4458.899321082@north.lcs.mit.edu>; from Mark Handley on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:24:42PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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