From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 13:30:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA06339 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:30:22 -0700 Received: from linux4nn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA06329 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:30:17 -0700 Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA11581; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:44:11 +0200 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA29323 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:30:51 +0100 Received: by iafnl.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA32619 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Sun, 23 Apr 1995 20:40:32 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA00739; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 18:45:43 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199504221645.SAA00739@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 18:45:42 +1596657 (MET DST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504211910.UAA11985@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Apr 21, 95 08:10:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1072 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I was just wondering, what do people think about gating hackers mail > into the newsgroups. Hackers is a fairly open forum anyway and the > new newsgroups are actually pretty good technically so it would > boost our presence if we got more traffic going through it. To MHO there is enough confusing (for the innocent bystander..) traffic on -hackers to make this a less than desirable idea. Why not point people to the mailing list when they are asking for specific info that warrants reading -hackers? > Note, I'm only talking about hackers and I'm only talking about hackers > mail going to the newsgroup and not the other way around, we don't want > all those Linux flames coming onto the mailing list. Arghh ;-) > Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------