From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 23 17:06:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00533 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00509; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:06:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08071; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:01:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980724010157.44029@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:01:57 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Tim Gerchmez , purebeef@shaw.wave.ca, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using 1 machine (a FreeBSD one) to connect 2 pcs to the net via References: <3.0.5.32.19980722174539.00837850@mx.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980722174539.00837850@mx.serv.net>; from Tim Gerchmez on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 05:45:39PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim, On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Grrrrr.... anyone who EVER sends a series of attachments to me again via a > mailing list Those attachments were the config files he mentioned in the post. Instead of copying the text into the message he added it as an attachment. So what? For people who are interested in looking at his problem that can actually be easier than if three or four config files have been pasted into one long e-mail. > without my permission is going to get mailbombed with 10,000 > ads for Sam's Spam Sandwiches... No they aren't. Because that will get you (and anyone else who decides to do something that silly) kicked off these lists and will probably generate many complaints to your upstream provider. Could we all try and think a bit before threatening people with mailbombing? It's not smart, it's not clever, and it will get people's accounts pulled. Cheers, N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message