From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 7 11:21:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.101.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAFB37B401 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8BAB7B0C5; Tue, 7 May 2002 20:21:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 20:21:34 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: You've Been Added! Message-ID: <20020507182134.GA72953@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> References: <3CD79198.C8403676@online.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CD79198.C8403676@online.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tore Lund writes: >Or, one could have a dedicated FreeBSD news server with all the lists on >it in the form of newsgroups. (I have a hunch this too would reduce the >spam, but I don't know by how much in the long run.) This is an idea I have favoured for a long time, imho mailing lists with hundreds of messages per day are just an abuse of the medium, Usenet is an excellent vehicle for that kind of traffic. All the mailing lists that exist for so many products etc. kinda form an unorganized shadow Usenet that would better be folded into the real one (given that comp.unix.bsd.* does even exist) or use a seperate dedicated newsserver. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message