From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 5 16:11:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A285F15375; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA81325; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:39:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:39:19 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, chris@calldei.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 new mailing lists: policy and ipfw Message-ID: <19990705233919.P71138@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990704210245.L71138@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990705003013.1551B14F2E@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990705003013.1551B14F2E@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:30:13PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:30:13PM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:02:45 +0100 > > From: Nik Clayton > > I'm adding them now. Core, why do we need "freebsd-policy"? Isn't > > that role also covered by freebsd-announce? > > at Usenix core specifically expressed the desire for a mailing > list, other than announce, which will carry all core decisions. it > has happened that people have mistaken statements by one member of > core for statements by the Core Team. > > If it did not appear in freebsd-policy, it aint freebsd > policy. this email excepted? ;P Fair enough. If someone's already subscribed to -announce should they subscribe to -policy as well, or will all -policy messages be cc'd to -announce? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message