On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:25:09PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:25:09 -0300 (BRST)
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Statux <statux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Mario Lorenz <ml@xxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 2.2.19pre16 TCP problems
>
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Statux wrote:
>
> > > If you need any more information, please email me. Please also CC: me as I
> > > am not subscribed to netdev.
> >
> > How are you able to post to this list if you aren't subscribed (or is
> > this some "different" kind of mail list)? :)
>
> IMHO mailing lists where only members can post are quite
> useless since they won't allow:
> - bug reports from non-subscribers
> - discussions cc'd to other lists
> - people sending stuff here because they were told to
>
> Personally I never send useful information to subscriber-only
> lists because of these problems.
Dealing with spammers has worked well so far without highly restrictive
meassures as a subscriber-only policy and other abuse so far hasn't
been an issue at all, so why the fsck should we make live more complex
than absolutely necessary.
Ralf (netdev-owner)
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