From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 18:31:03 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 D831816A433 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:31:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB83343D4C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:31:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from [10.0.0.101] (cpe-66-8-186-59.hawaii.res.rr.com [66.8.186.59]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j61IUxX7011795; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42C58BE2.5070900@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:30:58 -1000 From: Robert Marella User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <200507011623.j61GNgHG010772@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200507011623.j61GNgHG010772@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, James Riendeau , 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 18:31:04 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: >>I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post >>before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't >>go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests can be the same >>question/comment with a datestamp. >> >>Just my 2 cents. > > > Now figure in inflation and that make it.... > > Anyway, it is a little silly, but it is, by far, one of the least > annoying unnecessary messages we see on the list and much less > bothersome than some of the long diatribes about MS or GUIs or > other troll bait or some psuedo-legal jargon by amateur bar jockeys > that get dragged on and on and on and on and on and > > ////jerry > I agree. I am much more annoyed by top posters. Robert