From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 27 6:21:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4145137B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 06:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEB643E65 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 06:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yb@sainte-barbe.org) Received: from taz.hsc.fr (ogoun.hsc.fr [192.70.106.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "taz.hsc.fr", Issuer "HSC CA" (verified OK)) by itesec.hsc.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A3F2102B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:21:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by taz.hsc.fr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F0BEE7C8; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:21:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:21:30 +0200 From: Yann Berthier To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only Message-ID: <20020827132130.GB488@hsc.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <200208271049.g7RAnrl5019226@grimreaper.grondar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208271049.g7RAnrl5019226@grimreaper.grondar.org> X-Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants X-Web: http://www.hsc.fr/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Mark Murray wrote: > Hello Security list members > > I got an overwhelmingly positive (off-list, thanks!) response to > my complaint that this list's signal-to-noise ratio was terrible. > > Some folks are still replying to spam on list, but the noise figure > has dropped significantly. Thank you! > > I would very much like to make this list subscriber-only. This will > cut down dramatically on spam and the inevitable misdirected > 'subscribe' postings. The downside is that folks will not be able > to reply to the list if they receive it via a list redirector (IE > if a corporate role account/list-alias has been used to subscribe). > In this case, those folks would become read-only members (which may > in some cases be OK). Other folks would need to subscribe to the > list with their 'real' email address. Please go for a subscriber-only list. I am subscribed to a lot of list having this policy and: . nobody seems to complain . the signal / noise ratio is definitly better. - yann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message