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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:26:28 -0800
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: test
Message-ID:  <20070227032628.GA20631@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070226195720.K16785@wonkity.com>
References:  <2504.192.168.50.14.1172270800.squirrel@webmail.justnosweat.net> <20070227005238.GL70738@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20070226195720.K16785@wonkity.com>

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Warren Block wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>>On Friday, 23 February 2007 at 22:46:40 -0000, Justin Schlingmann wrote:
>>>Lets see if the mailserver can find my hostname from 80.126.252.242
>>
>>I think we're going to have to put this in the charter: please do
>>*not* send "test" messages to tens of thousands of people when you
>>just want to test your own configuration.  We have a mailing list
>>freebsd-test@FreeBSD.org exactly for that purpose.
>
>A notice on the web page here might help:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html
>
>With it between the Mailing List Archives and English Mailing Lists 
>sections, saying something like:
>
>Test Messages
>
>The lists freebsd-test, ..., ... have been created for test messages. 
>Please use only these test lists for test messages.
>
>Do not send test messages to any of the normal lists.

If you do send test messages, at least put some humour in them :-).

Bill
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