Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:44:27 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM Message-ID: <3737B5AB.353025AB@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101708530.401-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > > Garrett's points are why I sugggested that it would not be a useable > approach for -questions, newbies, and mabye hackers, 'cause they all get > a fair amount of posts like what Garrett describes. Current and > committers do NOT get such an audience, and the argument doesn't hold > for those lists, which do get spammed. 1) It *DOES* hold for committers, since it's closed subscription. For example, Matthew Dillon would be left out. 2) It *DOES* hold for -current, since many committers find it's signal/noise ratio too low. For instance, Robert Nordier (the boot guy). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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