Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:57:08 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: John Johnstone <jjohnstone@tridentusa.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Requiring list subscriptions (was Re: [Fwd: Gain Organic Traffic: Freebsdish.Org :PS]) Message-ID: <38984.128.135.70.2.1394121428.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkqk7Lr1o=QXwkND9zqgVJAiMhm%2BMxQ2AFjcoAVMEyi9_w@mail.gmail.com> References: <65506.128.135.70.2.1393967584.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <53168B33.9050602@tridentusa.com> <CAHHBGkqk7Lr1o=QXwkND9zqgVJAiMhm%2BMxQ2AFjcoAVMEyi9_w@mail.gmail.com>
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Which makes perfect point in support of my decision to unsubscribe from this list (which I already did, so: you are receiving e-mail from someone who is not list member ;-) Being not a newbie, I have that special feeling that I'm fleeing the place where I might be of some help sometimes... but I hope there are still many sharp people (more knowledgeable than I am ;-) who are staying. Valeri On Tue, March 4, 2014 8:48 pm, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 4 March 2014 21:25, John Johnstone <jjohnstone@tridentusa.com> wrote: >> On 3/4/2014 4:13 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> >>> Dear mail list owner, > >> I've been subscribed to mailing lists for quite a few years but only to >> just >> a few lists so perhaps my experience overall is quite limited. The >> FreeBSD >> mailing lists are the only ones I've come across that have the policy of >> "anyone can post". I was stunned to discover that you could post to the >> FreeBSD mailing lists without being subscribed. All other lists I've >> encountered have the policy of "only subscribers can post" with the >> obvious >> intent of keeping out spam. Their thinking is also "ask here" and "get >> an >> answer here". I'm curious to know what percentage of mailing lists >> today >> allow posting by non-subscribers. >> >> Although I've only been subscribed to this list for about a year I don't >> recall ever seeing spam that wouldn't have been stopped by requiring >> subscription to post. Has there ever been any spam to this list that >> used a >> forged subscriber address? > > Hi! > > Sorry, I hope not. This list (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) has been > this way for a long time, despite the spam problem. It is a newbie list, > and most spammers are rejected soon enough (generally after one > post) that it hardly matters, so the requirement to subscribe seems a > tad onerous to some barely-hatched FreeBSD-er who wants to ask a > question without having to sort through a veritable fire-hose (okay, the > lists have slowed down significantly since the late 1990s & early 2000s, > but there's still plenty of traffic). In any case, not all of the lists > are > like this. > > It has been discussed a great many times in the last couple of decades, > as well, so I am adding an apology for adding to the noise level here: > sorry. I doubt the official policy will be changing soon. > > Tertiarily (point-wise), I get more spam from having my address harvested > from the archives than I get on-list. It's annoying, but it's part of the > non- > obvious price of otherwise free tech support. > > -- > -- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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