Subject: Re: Mass-Mailings Delivered to NetBSD.ORG--STOP THE(MY) MADNESS
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: the Riz <riz@beast.boogers.sf.ca.us>
List: current-users
Date: 12/02/1997 07:53:54
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:33:53 -0500 (EST)
> Mike Long <mikel@shore.net> wrote:
>
> > I am not a member of core, and hence cannot speak for netbsd.org, but
> > as far as I know current policy is that anyone can post to netbsd.org
> > lists.
>
> The policy exists as it does because there are several NetBSD users who
> read their NetBSD mail via mail-news gateways, exploder lists, or in
> digest form. Making posting "subscriber-only" would wrongfully cut off
> those users.
How about something like the NANOG list just set up - a separate list which
gets NO traffic, but that you must be on in order to post? (in this case,
nanog-post@merit.edu) They just set it up, so I have no idea how it will
work in practice, but it seems like a decent compromise.
+j
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Jeff Rizzo http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz