From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 26 11:57:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA21515 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:57:02 -0700 Received: from eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA21476 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:56:29 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.142.36]) by eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <43047>; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 20:55:44 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA00398; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:30:29 +0200 Message-Id: <199504260830.KAA00398@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:44:10 +0200." <12851.798785050@freefall.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:30:29 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > newbie% mail new-users@freebsd.org Won't happen quite like that ! This will happen: random-login-name-on-some-other-machine-or-same-machine-with-other-os% \ mail new-users@freebsd.org ..... I'm working from scribbled paper notes from a FreeBSD session ... The newbie% prompt makes the massive assumption the release is so marvelous it has an auto configure for ppp slip or uucp, & gets sendmail.cf localised etc, all just done with the skills of a newbie.. Julian S