From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 4 00:10:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12731 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from houcbs2.houabg.com (houabg.com [206.109.247.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12720 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dchapman@houabg.com) Received: from sdn-ar-004txhousP268.dialsprint.net by houcbs2.houabg.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1457.7) id ZBAFFA7A; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 02:16:32 -0600 Message-ID: <369077A1.3E637E35@houabg.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 02:11:13 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current Subject: Re: sendmail throughput (was: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid,gid required.) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > I personally would like this so I could just ignore people flaming > > me. But really, I have to check my email every 2 hours or it fills > > up. I would like a news server. > > Privately, this gets suggested once about every year, and nearly > everyone in committers ignores it, because of the greatly increased > noise level rampant on nearly all newsgroups. No one has to ride herd > on these lists, and if it went to newsgroups, to shut down the noise it > would have to be monitored. You *can't* ignore trash, you have to at > least look at it, else you can't tell which ones are the interesting > ones, and no one feels like wading thru hundreds of trash messages. > > I read the FreeBSD newsgroups a great long while back, but stopped > because of the noise; I only started back up when I discovered the lower > noise level on the mailing lists. No one feels like opening up the > lists to extra noise. > > Several people *do* gate their mail into newsgroups you can use to > peruse with, but FreeBSD doesn't allow those groups to post, and isn't > really likely to. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) > (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I see where your comming from, but as I believe Mr Tubutis put it, the ideal setup would to have the mail list "link" the the news server. Therefore those who still would like the email, can keep it, those who like the news group could also use that. I guess filtering spam or junk mail isn't my primary reason for wanting to switch, I think I can keep my mouth shut when another one comes along. I like the newsgroup because when I go to check my email, I don't have to wait a couple of minutes for them all to download. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message