From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 19:34:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-170.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE43C37B440 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 19:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (mark9.vladsempire.net [10.0.0.97]) by mark9.vladsempire.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C31D710A; Sun, 27 May 2001 13:26:15 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Paetzel To: "Jason Halbert" , Subject: Re: What's going on with the list? Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:26:15 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052713261505.54532@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Sunday 27 May 2001 11:49, Jason Halbert wrote: > Hi all: > > When I first joined the list about a year ago everything seemed to hum > along. Now people spam the list with "test" messages everyday and the > new trend seems to be to e-mail the list and have us add them instead > of people following the directions at the website. > > Is it me or do people just NOT read and follow directions? > > ---- > Jason > jason@jason-n3xt.org > > Well, according to the list charter, you are spamming it right now. ;) I've been reading -questions for almost 5 years, and the "apparent mean cluefullness level" of the posters has dropped steadily. I attribute that to the fact that more and more people are hearing about and trying to use FreeBSD. If it really bothers you, why not set up some mail filters? Josh > 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