The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only

Carmel NY carmel_ny at outlook.com
Mon Dec 11 14:32:31 UTC 2017


On Monday, December 11, 2017 9:17 AM, Lowell Gilbert stated:
> "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722 at twc.com> writes:
> 
> > Why only the freebsd-ports mailing list and no others?
> >
> > Other FreeBSD mailing lists get spam, and I thought freebsd-questions was
> the biggest target for spam.
> 
> A fair number of FreeBSD lists *are* subscriber-only already.
> 
> However -questions isn't one of them because you can't ask someone to
> subscribe to a list before asking for tech support.

Excuse me, but I have had to subscribe to numerous lists before posting; i.e., the postfix forum
being an example. Peersonally, I think the FreeBSD team has dragged their feet on this matter
way to long to begin with.

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Carmel
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