From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 21:25:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08644 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08631; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:25:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA23103; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:55:39 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980627135538.B23035@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:55:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: drifter@stratos.net, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions References: <199806270002.RAA03571@hub.freebsd.org> <19980627001437.A628@stratos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980627001437.A628@stratos.net>; from drifter@stratos.net on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 12:14:37AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 June 1998 at 0:14:37 -0400, drifter@stratos.net wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 05:02:34PM -0700, Greg Lehey wrote: >> How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. >> =================================================== >> >> Last update 23 February 1998 >> >> This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If >> you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender >> thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your >> message: > > Just an idea... Is it possible to get Majordomo to send this > message every time someone subscribes, rather than posting it on the > mailing list on a regular basis. I'm not complaining or anything. > Procmail works fine for me. I just thought it might reach the > target audience a lot better, since the message would be the first thing > new subscribers would see before they read or post their first message. Sounds like a good idea. Jonathan, what do you think? The file's at //hub/~grog/Howto-ask-questions if you want to grab it. Maybe a symlink there would be better so that I can change things more easily. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message