From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 7 12:52:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from revolt.poohsticks.org (revolt.poohsticks.org [63.227.60.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E3C37B403 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 12:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from revolt.poohsticks.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by revolt.poohsticks.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g47JqbB98317; Tue, 7 May 2002 13:52:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drew@revolt.poohsticks.org) Message-Id: <200205071952.g47JqbB98317@revolt.poohsticks.org> To: Matthias Buelow Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You've Been Added! In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 2002 20:21:34 +0200." <20020507182134.GA72953@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <98314.1020801157.1@revolt.poohsticks.org> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 13:52:37 -0600 From: Drew Eckhardt 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 In message <20020507182134.GA72953@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg>, mkb@inform atik.uni-wuerzburg.de writes: >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. Usenet was excellent before use amongst drooling mouth-breathers skyrocketed thereby inherently decreasing the signal to noise ration and scaring off the reasonable posters. Now, unmoderated groups are unuseable. >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. A parallel news feed with stricter rules for membership is the only viable solution. -- Home Page For those who do, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message