Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:02:08 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: Gary Roberts <gary@wcs.uq.oz.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <199504260802.KAA00332@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Apr 1995 01:58:35 %2B0200." <9504242358.AA15172@wcs.uq.edu.au>
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Gary Re. > If every `lurker' agreed to > `adopt a newbie' and hold his/her hand until he/she got running, that > should immediately reduce newbie traffic in both news and mail by > transferring the traffic from the public lists to private e-mail. > Apart from a few scripts, I have no programming skills. > I would really like to ease the burden on > those who are `at the coal face' Good idea - would you like to prototype it as shell scripts ? once it works, the scripts could be transferred to a FreeBSD Internet machine, where the lists could be maintained by your scripts, with people updating it in a similar fashion to majordomo@freebsd.org. If your idea works well enough, then someone else may later recode the shell to C, (as happened with CVS I believe). You might want to look at majordomo sources (but I don't have them, & don't know if in C or sh or csh etc), try `archie majordomo` maybe ? Julian S
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