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Subject: Re: freebsd list admins?
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:03:23 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>>     The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy.
>>
>> Traffic too heavy in fact, & a mess of themes,
>> 	 Some traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or
>> 	 current@ or other more specialist lists
>
> Also, one place that is lower traffic, nearly spam free, and has consistently
> decent answers is USENET comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and it's not even official.
> However, I would assume this is due to the fact that September has permanently
> ended and will never return to USENET, so only serious users can be found
> lurking there.

forums.freebsd.org doesn't require a news server and is far more active.