Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread smorrill
I'll put up with some of the spam, and as for misdirected mail, welll... being a complete Linux newbie, I've probably submitted my share. But I've learned a lot from the folks on this list. I'd sure hate to see it go -- Steve Morrill Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Pub key id: 0xF2459FCD

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? Ummm, I guess we could: - shut down the news gateway, and restrict posts to debian-user to those who are subscribed to it, and make

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread Michael Harnois
bruce writes: I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? Agreed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
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

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ben Pfaff wrote: 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

clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-12 Thread bruce
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, and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-12 Thread Manos Papantoniou
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place.

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-12 Thread C.L. Daugaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 agree. -- C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes: 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 It's not that difficult to set up procmail to catch most of the spam.

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 agree. I agree too. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the