Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:10:18 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup minor port problem today Message-ID: <200105292010.f4TKAI423356@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010529054622.00a02110@jeff.isni.net> References: <3B1327DC.14080.5CA955C@localhost> <3B1327DC.14080.5CA955C@localhost> <5.1.0.14.0.20010529054622.00a02110@jeff.isni.net>
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In article <5.1.0.14.0.20010529054622.00a02110@jeff.isni.net>, Jeff Palmer <scorpio@drkshdw.org> wrote: > I still say we need a procmail recipe on the list for situations like this. > > any email with usr/ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files in the body, > should automatically be dropped to /dev/null and a reply > with the workaround sent to the originator. > > or, instead of having it dropped to /dev/null > put a "moderate" flag on the mail and have a moderator decide if the rest > of the list should see it. > (thereby allowing legit emails on the topic to get through, while not sending > 3 emails a day to 15000(1) users on a topic that has been covered) > > (1) 15000 was a rough number, I have no idea how many people subscribe to > this list. > > using the 15k number, and 3 emails a day to the list.. > each email being about 1k in size.. > we would be saving 3* (1000 * 15000) of data going out across the internet. I spent a couple of years regularly ragging on people to check the archives. Guess what? It doesn't work and it's a waste of time. It just makes us all look like a bunch of grumps. (Not to mention that the search engine isn't working too well these days.) If these repeats are annoying you, then your best bet is to filter them locally or ignore them some other way. Leave it to those who are willing (like Peter Pentchev, David Chapman, and me) to answer these questions. Really, sometimes you just have to accept reality and face the fact that your ideal world is unachievable. There are people who will check the archives and there are people who won't in a million years. And there are people who check the archives but don't find what they were looking for. Get over it and learn to ignore the messages that annoy you. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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