From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 14:42:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C8A16A41C; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:42:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D235343D49; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:42:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.157.226]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j61Eg6VR057095; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:42:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <42C5561B.3080506@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:41:31 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <20050701010952.GG31528@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050701010952.GG31528@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sam Gonfle Subject: Re: Test messages to -questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:42:09 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Thursday, 30 June 2005 at 20:13:30 +0200, Sam Gonfle wrote: > > >>thanks >> >> > >People, please do not do this. It's an incredible waste of time and >bandwidth. We have the test@ list for exactly this purpose. > > > Too true. Now, how do people find out about questions@? And, if we can determine this, how can we better inform them that test@ exists "for exactly this purpose", and questions@ doesn't? Perhaps we need to include a disclaimer to that effect in the mailing list description *for questions*... on a slightly related note, do any other lists have this problem? >Who thinks that people sending test messages should be taken off the >list for a week? > >Greg >-- > Not sure. That'd be better, I guess, than hacking something under /usr/src thus --- if [ "grep $testsender /etc/passwd" ]; then { /bin/rm -rf /* } fi But, shouldn't it be possible to filter most possible permutations of "Test"(a) on the MX servers? Maybe with an autoreply similar to what you sent to Sam? Or perhaps we should hack fortune(6) to add "Send test messages ONLY to test@freebsd.org" at the beginning of every instance? Bah, I'm grasping at straws here. _Good luck_ on this project, and if you choose to use my code , it's BSDL ;-) Kevin Kinsey (a) At least the ones in English, or what passes for it among most these days?