From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 26 15:14:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CE81543F; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id AAA10760; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:14:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by paula.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA08900; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:09:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch) Message-ID: <19990427000932.35187@panke.de.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:09:32 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: ports@freebsd.org, jmb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailing list freebsd-port-announce References: <19990426222304.18389@panke.de.freebsd.org> <199904262137.OAA21400@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199904262137.OAA21400@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 02:37:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-04-26 14:37:11 -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Wolfram Schneider > > * Many users ask me if I can sent the 'New ports added/updated last two > * weeks' mail to a low volume mailing list. > * > * freebsd-announce is not the right mailing list - some users > * don't wants ports information or large mails. > > Well, there are many other messages sent to announce that are only > relevant to 99% of the users, so I don't know what they are I got complains. > complaining about. As for the size, I don't remember the size of the > last mail but I don't think it was *that* big. usually 40-50 KBytes, 1000-1400 lines per mail. > * So I think we should setup a moderated freebsd-port-announce > * mailing list. > > (rolling eyes) > > Why don't you just post a URL to freebsd-announce and put the main > thing on the web? You can even be cuter and make hyperlinks and > stuff. The mails is generated from the web site ;-) Many user still prefer mail instead the 'klick here often' ;-)) -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message