From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 14:40:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA18346 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 14:40:36 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA18340 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 14:40:34 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA20115; Mon, 24 Apr 95 15:30:03 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504242130.AA20115@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 15:30:02 MDT Cc: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504241023.MAA29960@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Apr 24, 95 12:23:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hmm, if this was acceptable we could gate all the "general" mailing lists > > to the newsgroups in this way. They'd look like the linux newsgroups then :-) > > That's a thing I don't want to see. Many Linux friends I know have > stopped reading the *linux newsgroups because of the S/N ratio. I have a one-word argument against bidirectional gating: SPAM I realize that there is nothing that prevent C&S or whoever from posting off-topic grunge to mailing lists as well as news groups, but the job should not be done for them. There is enough danger of junk email just publishing the addresses. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.