On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Please can I encourage anyone posting to -devel-announce to ensure > that they have set the Reply-To: field to something sensible, and to > encourage anyone replying to a -devel-announce posting to check where > they are sending their reply. (Hint: -devel-announce is usually not > appropriate!) > > This is meant to be a very low volume announcement list, and it would > be good to keep it that way. > > Question: would it be worth making -devel-announce a moderated list? No, that is not the hacker way, that is the suit way. The solution must be that every time you see a follow-up in debian-announce that should not be there you send a message in private mail, to the author explaining their mistake. They will get a couple of mails telling them not to do it and they won't do it agian. I wonder if you know how ITS stops hackers crashing the system. They had a KILL SYSTEM command that would crash the system. A newbie would find it, run it and the system would crash, everybody would shout at them and they would never do it agian. Nobody got a kick out of crashing the system so nobody did it, except newbies, and they were newbies, so could be forgive, once. -- I consume, therefore I am
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