From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 16:32:51 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 275EE16A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:32:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CBB43D4C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:32:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DoORd-0001hL-V8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:32:50 -0400 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j61Gdr3E053909 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j61GdrJd053908 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:39:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507011139.53280.lane@joeandlane.com> X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79c91f3008c3cb80fa86055507a7069f8e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 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 16:32:51 -0000 On Friday 01 July 2005 10:29, fbsd_user wrote: > So just because this guy was considerate and said 'test' in his > subject he gets criticized. But all the posts to this list for > selling drugs we all just ignore with no comments. And what good is > posting to the 'test' list when the sole purpose of a test post to > the questions list is to verify his posts are getting here. The test > list is totally useless. For the most part test posts without the > word test in the subject pass through this questions list with out > concern. This whole thread is so useless that it's funny. > > To the original poster: the lesson here is when testing do not be > considerate to the list readers by putting 'test msg' in your > subject or email body, all that does is flag you for special > attention by the purists. > > That's all I have to say about that. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kevin > Kinsey > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:42 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Sam Gonfle > Subject: Re: Test messages to -questions > > 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? > _______________________________________________ I agree! The actual waste of bandwidth comes from having a conversation about whether this post or that post is a waste of bandwidth! Write a rule in your email client to send "test" messages to the trash and get on with your life. lane