From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 10 23: 6:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802AF1590D for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id PAA20713; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:03:45 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3737B5AB.353025AB@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:44:27 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Mark Murray , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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