Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 01:36:15 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replies to spam Message-ID: <20161230004207.U26979@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <mailman.118.1480939202.7019.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.118.1480939202.7019.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 653, Issue 1, Message: 3
On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 20:29:25 +0000 Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 09:14:51 -0700 (MST)
> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>
> > The volume of posts to -questions from new users has not been very high
> > for years. To me, that does not seem like a compelling reason to keep
> > the list open to posting without subscription.
New users come in bursts. Refer to the most recent times as example :)
> The policy along with the reply-all convention is common to all the
> FreeBSD lists AFAIK and is convenient for the occasional question to the
> more specialised lists.
Indeed. There are as many reasons to keep questions@ and quite a few
other freebsd lists open as people can and will keep presenting their
desire to see them closed. This is my first&last response this round.
November:
# Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf
* Replies to spam Eduardo Morras
* Replies to spam Bertram Scharpf
o Replies to spam Jonathan McKeown
+ Replies to spam Bertram Scharpf
+ Replies to spam Warren Block
+ Replies to spam David I Noel
+ Replies to spam Matthias Apitz
+ Replies to spam Thomas Mueller
+ Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf
+ Replies to spam David I Noel
+ Replies to spam Matthias Apitz
+ Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf
+ Replies to spam David I Noel
+ Replies to spam markham breitbach
December:
# Replies to spam Warren Block
* Replies to spam Warren Block
* Replies to spam Polytropon
o Replies to spam David I Noel
+ Replies to spam David I Noel
+ Replies to spam Ralf Mardorf
+ Replies to spam Adam Vande More
+ Replies to spam David I Noel
* Replies to spam Steve O'Hara-Smith
Where the one before yours just arrived today, and might blessedly have
been 'the last word' had I been able to resist one more time, but alas!
Is that a greater or fewer number of messages as spam? I don't care.
If it were a matter of 'who posts most wins', we'd sack core@ wholesale,
seize the clusters and install a Ubergruppenfuhrer to eliminate the last
of these obsolete old ideas, like mailing lists that can be accessed on
computers without (gasp) GUI and mouse. Users with disabilities should
be made to use iphones. Or maybe we could just move it all to Twitter?
Seriously .. for those for whom forums are better, you can move there
right now. By all means, please do. This would leave we ancient relics
who actually like lists, and can happily ignore most spam and work with
postmaster@ team as necessary to deal with specific issues, to enjoy and
use these lists despite this forever recurring, rolling whingefest.
Happy solstice, perihelion and all of the next orbit, for all beings.
Ian
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