From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 9:23: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3150637B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:23:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C07541C66; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:23:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:23:07 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Alex Belits Cc: Mike Silbersack , Greg Black , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <20001102122307.W37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:28:09AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:28:09AM -0800, Alex Belits wrote: > Some places with not-so-nice connectivity to the rest of the Internet > use local lists to distribute this list among users -- this is why there > are messages with no to:/cc: hackers@freebsd.org in the first place. And > it will do nothing for autoresponders because autoresponder may happen to > be subscribed directly just like anything else. So, real solutions are: Also when moving a discussion from one mailing list to another, most people use: To: freebsd-newlist Cc: all the people who were in the thread Bcc: freebsd-oldlist [ moving discussion -newlist ] etc -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message