From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Dec 29 14:36:29 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CACC95D16 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2016 14:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A94C0110B for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2016 14:36:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id uBTEaFKx065266; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 01:36:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 01:36:15 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replies to spam In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20161230004207.U26979@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 14:36:29 -0000 In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 653, Issue 1, Message: 3 On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 20:29:25 +0000 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 09:14:51 -0700 (MST) > Warren Block wrote: > > > The volume of posts to -questions from new users has not been very high > > for years. To me, that does not seem like a compelling reason to keep > > the list open to posting without subscription. New users come in bursts. Refer to the most recent times as example :) > The policy along with the reply-all convention is common to all the > FreeBSD lists AFAIK and is convenient for the occasional question to the > more specialised lists. Indeed. There are as many reasons to keep questions@ and quite a few other freebsd lists open as people can and will keep presenting their desire to see them closed. This is my first&last response this round. November: # Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf * Replies to spam Eduardo Morras * Replies to spam Bertram Scharpf o Replies to spam Jonathan McKeown + Replies to spam Bertram Scharpf + Replies to spam Warren Block + Replies to spam David I Noel + Replies to spam Matthias Apitz + Replies to spam Thomas Mueller + Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf + Replies to spam David I Noel + Replies to spam Matthias Apitz + Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf + Replies to spam David I Noel + Replies to spam markham breitbach December: # Replies to spam Warren Block * Replies to spam Warren Block * Replies to spam Polytropon o Replies to spam David I Noel + Replies to spam David I Noel + Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf + Replies to spam Adam Vande More + Replies to spam David I Noel * Replies to spam Steve O'Hara-Smith Where the one before yours just arrived today, and might blessedly have been 'the last word' had I been able to resist one more time, but alas! Is that a greater or fewer number of messages as spam? I don't care. If it were a matter of 'who posts most wins', we'd sack core@ wholesale, seize the clusters and install a Ubergruppenfuhrer to eliminate the last of these obsolete old ideas, like mailing lists that can be accessed on computers without (gasp) GUI and mouse. Users with disabilities should be made to use iphones. Or maybe we could just move it all to Twitter? Seriously .. for those for whom forums are better, you can move there right now. By all means, please do. This would leave we ancient relics who actually like lists, and can happily ignore most spam and work with postmaster@ team as necessary to deal with specific issues, to enjoy and use these lists despite this forever recurring, rolling whingefest. Happy solstice, perihelion and all of the next orbit, for all beings. Ian