Re: clueless people on debian-user

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

   Why do you want to do that?  

   On 13 Dec 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:

   >    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 think that we need to make the newsgroups read-only.  Any
   > submissions to the list should be required to come via e-mail.

Aren't the problems with having the newsgroups that cluless people
send stupid messages and spam to the lists?  So if we just allow
people to *read* the lists on newsgroups, but require them to send
submissions to the e-mail address, then we've got the best of both
worlds.  


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