Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:51:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: grog@lemis.com, mjh@east.isi.edu, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu Subject: Re: windows 98 Message-ID: <199807021351.IAA10338@plains.NoDak.edu>
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I think patching majordomo to close the multimedia mailing list is a high tech solution for a low tech problem. the web page: http://www.freebsd.org/~ahasty/Bt848.html (where nephites find by web search engines invites mail question, and I quote: "You can reach us: multimedia@freebsd.org", and it is hyperlinked and everything...of course you are asking for uninformed (not my first choice of word) people to ask uninformed questions. the point that I was trying to make is that adding the mailing list address to a web page is an invitation to these kinds of mail. Adding a better explaination of the appropriate use of the mailing list will cut back on most blind queries. the remaining queries will be the truely frustrated and the totally clueless...IMHO, we don't have to help them; ignore them if we want, but there is no excuse to flame them. who knows the web page may introduce FreeBSD to a person that knows no alternative other than M$, and may see that FreeBSD could be an alternative. I think the traffic we getting in annoying M$, or even Linux questions can be chalked up to the price of Public Relation. if you want to restrict -multimedia to developers only, then take the mailing list out of the web page. --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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