Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> Paul Johnson wrote:
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> > Madhusudan Singh <msdebian@yahoo.com> writes:
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> > > alt.os.linux.debian
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> > > Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by
> > > requesting them to carry it.
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> > > Let us get it started.
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> > Why fracture and duplicate the effort already taken care of by
> > lists.debian.org?
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> This is not a "fracture" or "duplication". To post to this group, I had to
> reveal my email address and go through a two email process of subscription.
> Those things might not be problematic for you, but as a long time user of
> the Usenet, I find these requirements onerous, and in the present day spam
> ridden Net experience, even inviting trouble, since this is a glorified
> mailing list.
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It's handy to reveal your genuine email address in order to subscribe to 
the list, but AFAIK you can use a completley bogus address to write to it.

If you do this, pls ensure you do use a bogus address and not some other 
poor sod's address. Or askbill@microsoft.com.

No, I don't mean that. Bill has enough problems already. What, with 
Longhorn slipping and fragmenting and all.


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John

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