From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 28 03:22:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA16255 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 03:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA16226; Tue, 28 May 1996 03:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id DAA00653; Tue, 28 May 1996 03:19:45 -0700 Message-Id: <199605281019.DAA00653@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent mail in yackers In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 May 1996 18:39:59 PDT." <199605270139.SAA05678@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:19:45 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > > > first we had: cisco, love 'em or leave em > > > then we enjoyed: perl, better than C > > > and now its: asm: loading to the left vs moving to the right? > > > > > > it must be an election year in the usa > > > > > > -- > > > > Maybe is time for someone to create a *private* technical mailing > > list which deals with mundane things like coding 8) > > > > Personally, I don't mine the volume on the hacker's mailing , I do > > object to the type of non-related topics that has been surfacing > > lately and the lack of OS discussions. Well, it feels that > > if I unsubscribe I would not be missing much. > > yes, that's just the problem, lots of junk and some good > material. scared to unsubscribe for fear or missing the > good stuff that does go by....maybe we should start > discussing the code here in chat. lure them all in and > then switch the technical material back to hackers ;) > Yeap, that will be a neat trick have them come over to chat and then lock them all in here 8) I suggested to create a different private technical list and "Brian N. Handy" shot me down . So my next idea is to have a mediated mailing list either that or just unsubscribe for a while and hope & pray that the useless postings stops. At any rate, it seems that the noise has gone down on freebsd-hackers 8) Cheers, Amancio