Hi questions@ > Robert Simmons articulated: > > There > > seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists > > that keep spamming it periodically,
je...@seibercom.net wrote: > Now, if this forum were conducted under the same restraints that the > Postfix forums(2) adhere to, the quality of advice given and basic > overall quality of this forum would increase immeasurably. The history of address <questi...@freebsd.org> explains why we are here: questions@ list introduced to provide stuck newbies a lifeline. (Advertised from /etc/motd after a new install. ) Created long after more lists such as hackers@ & current@ & some other list, But still created years ago now. Many old guard didn't subscribe questions@ many years, 'cos just newbie questions, too boring, no time etc. A few experienced conscientious people did sub. questions@ though & did lots of good working helping people. Years later, what was once a list for mostly simple newbies has become a lot more skilled (I was suprised when I re-sub'd after absence of years, a notable difference; Maybe people presumably learnt FreeBSD, but failed to move on to hackers@ & current@, & usb@ etc, is probably down to individual inertia). The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy. Traffic too heavy in fact, & a mess of themes, Some traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or current@ or other more specialist lists http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo Posting less to questions@ & more to other lists would help: Some traffic deserves a wider, &/or more specialist readership on other lists; Some Subjects some don't need. Newbies questions could be clearer visible as still pending an answer, not drowned among a morass of more technical threads. > It is my personal view that FreeBSD-Questions should be consolidated > into the chat forum. Chat forums are rarely moderated and tend to be > open to the general public. The "Questions" forum has deteriorated to > the level of SlashDot which has deteriorated to the level of a > cesspool. At least SlashDot openly admits that they allow (encourage) > "Anonymous Coward" to post. I'm against merging chat@ & questions@, & don't believe it will happen Lists for different purposes, but even if questions@ people might come to a consensus in favour of merging, lots of people on other lists have a use for a seperate chat@, ie to demand of off remit people on their other lists "Take it to chat@" I think we should: make questions@ list writable only to subscribers (if not already); & Edit /usr/src/etc/motd eg: OLD If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of OLD `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it OLD as a question to the questi...@freebsd.org mailing list. NEW If you still have a question or problem, please subscribe (free) via NEW http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/subscribe/freebsd-questions NEW then email <questi...@freebsd.org> Should we send in a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"