bin/158238: diff: /etc/motd: Tell people to subscribe questions@ before posting.

[Julian H. Stacey]

>Number:         158238
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       diff: /etc/motd: Tell people to subscribe questions@ before posting.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 23 22:30:12 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Julian H. Stacey
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fire.js.berklix.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 2 23:10:13 CEST 2011 jhs at blak.js.berklix.net:/ad6s4/release/8.2-RELEASE/src/sys/amd64/compile/FIRE64.small amd64

	
>Description:
	diff: /etc/motd: Tell people to subscribe questions@ before posting.
	To reduce noise on questions@ somewhat (& as a side effect,
	ensure newbies get all replies, (as some respondents just
	reply to lists, not to all previous thread participants, &
	some newbies might not realise. )

>How-To-Repeat:
Read questions@ archive Subject: freebsd list admins?

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201106202352.24196.rsimmons0
 obert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com>
 "There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to
 these lists that keep spamming it periodically"

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20110621074416.58869e66
 Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net>
 "Unfortunately, this is an "open" list; ie, anyone subscribed or not
  can post. This leads to the inevitable problems that plague this forum."

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201106212203.p5LM3NbI005159
 "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com>
 "I think we should: make questions@ list writable only to subscribers
 (if not already); & Edit /usr/src/etc/motd ...  Should we send in
 a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd  eg:"

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?BANLkTimoY58yWwdHYPrhKBzPQa0CYhxERw
 Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com>
 "PR it.  Sounds good."

>Fix:

A patch in diff -c format is appended below, & a spare copy here
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/etc/motd.REL=ALL.diff

*** 8.2-RELEASE/src/etc/motd	Thu Jul  3 08:06:09 2003
--- new/src/etc/motd.new	Thu Jun 23 22:58:31 2011
***************
*** 13,21 ****
     http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/.  If the doc distribution has
     been installed, they're also available formatted in /usr/share/doc.
  
! If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of
! `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it
! as a question to the questions at FreeBSD.org mailing list.  If you are
  unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout, please refer to the hier(7)
  manual page.  If you are not familiar with manual pages, type `man man'.
  
--- 13,22 ----
     http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/.  If the doc distribution has
     been installed, they're also available formatted in /usr/share/doc.
  
! If you still have a question or problem, please subscribe (free) via
! http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/subscribe/freebsd-questions  then take 
! the output of `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email
! it as a question to the questions at FreeBSD.org mailing list.  If you are
  unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout, please refer to the hier(7)
  manual page.  If you are not familiar with manual pages, type `man man'.
  


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