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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Are you a programmer?  Do you wear glasses?
To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:07:18 -0500 (CDT)
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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