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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:01:57 -0700
To: Kristofer Pettijohn <kpettijohn@visi.com>, questions@freebsd.org
From: Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com>
Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists.
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I can imagine why people might not subscribe.  This is high volume 
mailing list!  I find it takes up a noticeble part of my day even 
though I delete some entries without even reading the subject.
(I admit I have a hard time not at least reading the subject.)

This is the number 1 place to get help but it can be overwhelming to 
subscribe.  The subscribe and unsubscribe processes can take a while
so subscribing for a short time just to ask a single question can 
be a time consuming task too.



1/7/2002 11:39:00 AM, Kristofer Pettijohn <kpettijohn@visi.com> wrote:

>> It seems to me that this might be one extra hoop for nonsubscribers, but
>> nothing too incomprehensible or onerous, and it would profoundly reduce the
>> amount of spam.
>> Good idea?  Bad idea?
>
>Or even disallow non-subscribers from posting at all?
>If they want to post bad enough, they should be part of the list :)
>
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