From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 10 5:57:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B99C1554B for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 05:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (root@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id IAA07073; Mon, 10 May 1999 08:56:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA18206; Mon, 10 May 1999 07:30:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:30:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: Brent Rector , Pete Vanderburgh , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Religious Propoganda. In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990509141650.00959d30@mail.bfm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 9 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > While I agree that message did not belong here, how often does a thing like > that happen here? Is it really worth delaying the flow of messages because > of an occasional bad apple? (Surely you cannot sit at the computer 24/7 and > let all good messages pass through immediately.) > > Now, if it were to become a regular thing, it may be worth having a human > filter. But so far, that has not been the case. Adam - We seem to have had a couple instances of `fetish mail' of late. And the `my god is bigger than your god' stuff gets pretty tedious. I would vote, if I had a vote, to block this stuff - if it were possible to do so without having the cure be worse than the symptom. The perl-dbi mailing list blocks posts from non-subscribers... (www.fugue.com/dbi, if you're interested.) This might prove more useful than making a human sift rubbish. > Abusus non tollit usum. Semper Paratus. ;-) Cheers, Tom ---- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center Thomas Good Information Systems Coordinator E-Mail: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 Empowered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message