At 12:49 09/12/2000 +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
> > Do you think http://www.objective2k.co.uk/goodmozillauser.htm is formed
> > enough for me to post a regular message to it?
>
>It's a good document, but the problem is that 95% of the spam would be
>avoided if everyone read a page which contained only the sentence
>"<H1>This is not a newsgroup for queries about any sort of Netscape
>product.</H1>" I would fear that the above document is still so long that
>people wouldn't extract that essential point from it.
True enough. Pick up hammer hit over the head until concept sticks.
> > Because of my general
> > hatred of NNTP, I've never really looked into it, but is there the
> > possibility of having a warning message on subscribing to a newsgroup?
>
>No. Because Newsgroups are a "pull" mechanism, you can't do something like
>this. Hence the planned "auto-add-FAQ-URL" magic for some of the new
>newsgroups.
I thought not.
>
> > Certainly, the mailing list subscription confirmation should include
> > disclaimers about it not being a Netscape group and sending them off to
> > some other place.
>
>Yeah... can you add a comment to the reorg bug to that effect?
About to do.
Simon
>
>Gerv
