Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
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

RE: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread fbsd_user
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

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread James Riendeau
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

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests can be the same question/comment with a datestamp. Just my 2 cents. Now

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Lane
] [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

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Robert Marella
Jerry McAllister wrote: I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests can be the same question/comment with a datestamp. Just

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
What's wrong with top posting? ;-) On 7/1/05, Robert Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't go through, you know it's not

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Lane
On Friday 01 July 2005 13:30, Robert Marella wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bryan Maynard
Pardon my newness, but what is top posting? Thanks, Bryan On Friday 01 July 2005 06:56 pm, Lane wrote: On Friday 01 July 2005 13:30, Robert Marella wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
that was a joke btw, lets not get into that too. anyways You could always add an addendum to the SMTP rfc that states when someone sends a blank message with the subject test it will send back the message with OK in the body. ___

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:29 AM, fbsd_user wrote: 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

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-01 14:09, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that was a joke btw, lets not get into that too. anyways You could always add an addendum to the SMTP rfc that states when someone sends a blank message with the subject test it will send back the message with OK in the body. I'd

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deleted] While proposing ways to stop people from sending test messages to lists, can someone find a way to filter out top posting as well? :-) I'm not trying to stop anybody. I'm purposing ping for SMTP, The construct is like an echo

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 1, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/1/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deleted] While proposing ways to stop people from sending test messages to lists, can someone find a way to filter out top posting as well? :-) I'm not trying to stop anybody. I'm

Re: Test messages to -questions (was: juste a test do not answer)

2005-06-30 Thread Aaron Peterson
On 6/30/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Who thinks that people sending