Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:07:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are you a programmer? Do you wear glasses? Message-ID: <199607021507.KAA17016@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199607011636.JAA08702@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jul 1, 96 09:36:00 am
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> Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > > > Could someone please UUENCODE (i.e. *expand*) the CVS hierarchy and > > > > > mail it to this guy? Maybe 10K each day for the next year or so? > > > > > > > > :). AOL has like a 300K limit on mail messages. Probably because > > > > people who use AOL tend to piss other people off. > > > > > > Actually, aren't the lists set up so that only subscribers can post > > > to the lists? Or, is that considered too "unfriendly"? > > > > That would be bad to do, people are often referred here when they encounter > > strange problems. > > > > It might make sense to hold their messages in an "approval queue" if they > > are not a list member. > > we had had vbery few incidents of this type. i get to the approval > queue every day or two. because of that dealy, a new user might > get left out in the cold for 48 hours. > > better to live with a spam or two every onnce in a while than > to lose people because we are too distant. in spite of how > much i hate spam....sigh I would tend to agree, I was mainly trying to point out why closing the lists to non-subscriber posts would be a bad idea. ... JG
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