List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Warren Block

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Stephen Cook wrote:

I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y? I 
realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire, but others in 
the thread (and other unrelated threads recently) are a FAR CRY from the 
technical support and discussion I expected. I thought I'd see an occasional 
RTFM, maybe a random "WinBlows" here and there... but this type of thing just 
diminished everyone involved.


No, this is unusual.  But also remember that most of these lists are not 
just unmoderated but open to posting without subscription.  Then it 
becomes kind of amazing at how little flaming and trolling there is. 
That's not an accident, the admins work hard to limit abuse.


As an alternate, consider the forums (http://forums.freebsd.org/), which 
are moderated.

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Re: List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Stephen Cook :

> No, this is unusual.  But also remember that most of these lists are not
> just unmoderated but open to posting without subscription.  Then it
> becomes kind of amazing at how little flaming and trolling there is.
> That's not an accident, the admins work hard to limit abuse.

> As an alternate, consider the forums (http://forums.freebsd.org/), which
> are moderated.

Because of FreeBSD lists being mainly unmoderated and open to posting without 
subscription, I notice some outright spams that slip through the list filters.

I believe (could possibly be wrong) that the lists have spam filters in place.

If a message has properties of spam, it will be held for a human moderator to 
see if it is spam (dump it) or not spam (let it through).

Tom
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Re: List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Because of FreeBSD lists being mainly unmoderated and open to posting without 
subscription, I notice some outright spams that slip through the list filters.

I believe (could possibly be wrong) that the lists have spam filters in place.


it must have and well done. FreeBSD list is for sure more known to spammer 
than me, while i would get ca 2000 spams per day after turning off my 
antispam system.


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