Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:13:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jleppek@suw2k.hisd.harris.com (James Leppek) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailling list content Message-ID: <199603201913.MAA27506@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9603201458.AA10531@suw2k.hisd.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Mar 20, 96 09:58:45 am
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> Hmmmm, this may not go over well with some but as a long > time lurker and user it seems that freebsd-hackers has turned into > ,dare I say it, a newsgroup :-( > There seems to be more and more general topic chit chats and technology > (not freebsd) discussions. Is it only my perception???? > Is this inevitable with an increase in popularity of > freebsd ( the internet was so nice and quite in the early 80's :-) ) > I am concerned that we may begin to lose freebsd contributors on > the list. Jordan recent "flamed" me for this one, giving me a nice Sword of Damocles to deal with should I repond publically. My private response was that the hacker he was concerned about didn't have to unsubscribe to get rid of the noise. He could have installed the "elm" "filter" program (no, you don't have use elm, then) and simply "killed" the offensive-to-him threads by subject. He could also lump the lists into seperate mailboxes by origin, an quickly scan the low signal lists when he felt he had the time instead of having it part of one big lumpy thing (and he could again kill threads by subject, etc., on a per list basis). Personally, I lump by origin, and haven't needed to kill anything by subject yet. If I ever do, I'll setup shell scripts and cron-based aging of subjects so they come back after a week or two (in case they get reused). So I think your fears are largely unfounded. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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