From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 6:50:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6F937B406 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 06:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5LDotZj028595; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:50:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5LDotsR028594; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:50:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:50:55 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Stephen Hovey Cc: "Philip J. Koenig" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, John Mills Subject: Re: URGENT Message-ID: <20020621155055.A28562@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20020621082346465.AAA685@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:12:25AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Stephen Hovey typed: > > > > > > The spam on this list is pretty phenomenal. Was it always this > > > bad? > > > > > > I don't think so. Then again, spam has gotten a lot worse everywhere > > over the last year or so. > > > > Then again, if questions@freebsd.org was like 95% of the email lists > > out there and didn't allow anyone in the whole wide world to post > > without being a listmember, I *guarantee* it would not be as bad as > > it is now. > > > > I think this was talked about in the past and the reasoning had something > to do with a problem of legit users not gettin it on their from addresses > in that arrangement (in other words signing up one way, but emailing from > another)... Personally, I think if you cant figure out that piece, you > should be a windows user.. > From /etc/motd (what every newbee will read after the first successfull installation): If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it as a question to the questions@FreeBSD.org mailing list. I consider this an excellent service provided by FreeBSD. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message