Re: clueless people on debian-user
personally I find the usenet more efficient since I don't have to
download the complete messages, just the headers
Manos
G John Lapeyre wrote:
>
> On 12 Dec 1997 bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
>
> > > My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I
> > > have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper
> > > order. What do I do?
> >
> > This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this,
>
> See my reply to the post as well !
>
> > and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the clueless
> > people who mail to our personal mailboxes, there has been a clamor
> > to shut down the news gateway and go to mailing-list-only distribution
> > of the Debian lists. To compound the problem the news gateway has
> > been stripping out the X-No-Archive header, and the operator is too busy
> > to fix it for now. Also, some web archives do not honor that header at all.
> >
> > I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
> > and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
> >
> I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad,
> but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like
> this. Thats not much, and Im pretty fast with the 'D' key. I think that
> the benefits outweigh the costs. I tend not to have an emotional reaction
> to spam in my inbox, but again , for me its 50 to 1 or more legitimate
> mail.
> Question is how many debain users prefer to access the list via
> usenet ?
>
> G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
>
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