Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:23:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: mjh@east.isi.edu, tinguely@plains.nodak.edu, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows 98 Message-ID: <199807012323.QAA14505@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19980702084032.L10452@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 2, 98 08:40:32 am"
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 1 July 1998 at 15:24:42 -0400, Mark Handley wrote: > > > >> Joe User uses their web browser to search one of the many web search engine > >> for the card they have a problem with...up comes a FreeBSD page that talks > >> about the driver written for FreeBSD. Joe User sees (in Charlie Brown style) > >> WAA, WAA, WAA, (his card), WAA, WAA, WAA, WAA (mailing list name). > >> Joe User send message to mailling list. > >> > >> It is annoying to see M$ questions, but Joe User is not informed enough to > >> know that your web page is not close enough to what he wants to know. I get > >> them all the time. > > > > The technological solution to this problem would be to only allow > > postings from members of the list. Non-members would get a reply that > > politely explains what the mailing list is for, what FreeBSD is, and > > that if they're still interested and try again, their mail _will_ be > > forwarded to the list. The list server would keep a cache of > > non-members that mailed in the last 48 hrs, and allow them to post to > > the list without being a member. > > > > It would also serve as a simple spam filter as most spammers don't > > read the replies or use a fake reply-to address. > > On -questions, at any rate, we certainly *don't* want this. But I > suppose we could have different policies for different lists. jmb? sounds possible....would help to cut down on spam as well i expect. how was gonna mail in the diffs to majordomo-1.94.4? ;) jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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