From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 26 18: 2:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0FA152F4; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09485; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id SAA29476; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:02:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199904270102.SAA29476@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Mailing list freebsd-port-announce In-Reply-To: <19990427001535.3677014DF3@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Apr 26, 99 05:15:35 pm" To: jmb@hub.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, asami@freebsd.org Organization: <> thought.org: public service Unix since 1986... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Jonathan M. Bresler: > > 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. > > > > So I think we should setup a moderated freebsd-port-announce > > mailing list. > > you may be right......or perhpas we can create a > ports-announce web page which will contain each 'new ports' message > as it is generated. not too much to ask for them to check one web > page every two weeks. > > thoughts? > For my sake I have no problem with the bi-weekly ports' update. Do we really-really need Yet Another Mailing List? Foo... gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message