From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 31 7:59:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FB337B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41AF943E42 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 520002375936-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17Zuwy-0004eN-05; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:59:44 +0200 Received: from grybel.mayn.de (520002375936-0001@[217.230.139.136]) by fwd09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17Zuwv-0iAp7IC; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:59:41 +0200 Received: (qmail 15857 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2002 14:59:40 -0000 Received: from zebulon.hustr.prv (192.168.1.3) by grybel.hustr.prv with SMTP; 31 Jul 2002 14:59:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:59:40 +0200 From: 520002375936-0001@t-online.de (Uwe Ploss) To: David Schultz Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: subscribe freebsd-stable Message-Id: <20020731165940.6dcf3243.resident@grybel.mayn.de> In-Reply-To: <20020725110507.GA4236@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <200207152133.g6FLXQb72508@osvald.void.ru> <20020716053638.A21324@grybel.mayn.de> <20020716195624.X1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> <20020725114644.77b8c398.resident@grybel.mayn.de> <20020725110507.GA4236@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Reply-To: resident@grybel.mayn.de Organization: Chaos X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520002375936-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:05:07 -0700 David Schultz wrote: > > I suggest to add something like the following near the quoted > > passages (in big, red letters): > > > > "Note: in order to subscribe to a list DO NOT send mail to any other > > address than !" > > There are many places in the documentation where some people > (henceforth referred to as `illiteratte bums') might become > confused, but I don't think the one you point out is one of them. > I suspect it's usually the ones that mention the actual email > address for a list, e.g. `stable@FreeBSD.ORG'. There are two > things to be said for fixing these: fewer misdirected subscribe > requests and less SPAM. (This assumes that the docs are changed > to refer to the lists by name only and to explain how to send mail > to the lists in meta terms.) I don't think I get your point... But either way, I do not ask for reasons *why* mislead subscribe messages occur, but simply for methods to prevent them. And I do think that a little notice - as mentioned above - may be a first step. PS: not subscribed on -doc, please cc on answer regards -- Linus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message