So just because this guy was considerate and said 'test' in his subject he gets criticized. But all the posts to this list for selling drugs we all just ignore with no comments. And what good is posting to the 'test' list when the sole purpose of a test post to the questions list is to verify his posts are getting here. The test list is totally useless. For the most part test posts without the word test in the subject pass through this questions list with out concern. This whole thread is so useless that it's funny.
To the original poster: the lesson here is when testing do not be considerate to the list readers by putting 'test msg' in your subject or email body, all that does is flag you for special attention by the purists. That's all I have to say about that. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Kinsey Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sam Gonfle Subject: Re: Test messages to -questions Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Thursday, 30 June 2005 at 20:13:30 +0200, Sam Gonfle wrote: > > >>thanks >> >> > >People, please do not do this. It's an incredible waste of time and >bandwidth. We have the test@ list for exactly this purpose. > > > Too true. Now, how do people find out about [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, if we can determine this, how can we better inform them that test@ exists "for exactly this purpose", and questions@ doesn't? Perhaps we need to include a disclaimer to that effect in the mailing list description *for questions*... on a slightly related note, do any other lists have this problem? >Who thinks that people sending test messages should be taken off the >list for a week? > >Greg >-- > Not sure. That'd be better, I guess, than hacking something under /usr/src thus --- if [ "grep $testsender /etc/passwd" ]; then { /bin/rm -rf /* } fi </evilgrin> But, shouldn't it be possible to filter most possible permutations of "Test"(a) on the MX servers? Maybe with an autoreply similar to what you sent to Sam? Or perhaps we should hack fortune(6) to add "Send test messages ONLY to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" at the beginning of every instance? Bah, I'm grasping at straws here. _Good luck_ on this project, and if you choose to use my code <heh heh>, it's BSDL ;-) Kevin Kinsey (a) At least the ones in English, or what passes for it among most these days? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
