Test messages to -questions

[fbsd_user]

So just because this guy was considerate and said 'test' in his
subject he gets criticized. But all the posts to this list for
selling drugs we all just ignore with no comments. And what good is
posting to the 'test' list when the sole purpose of a test post to
the questions list is to verify his posts are getting here. The test
list is totally useless. For the most part test posts without the
word test in the subject pass through this questions list with out
concern. This whole thread is so useless that it's funny.

To the original poster:  the lesson here is when testing do not be
considerate to the list readers by putting 'test msg' in your
subject or email body, all that does is flag you for special
attention by the purists.

That's all I have to say about that.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kevin
Kinsey
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:42 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Cc: Sam Gonfle
Subject: Re: Test messages to -questions


Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>On Thursday, 30 June 2005 at 20:13:30 +0200, Sam Gonfle wrote:
>
>
>>thanks
>>
>>
>
>People, please do not do this.  It's an incredible waste of time
and
>bandwidth.  We have the test@ list for exactly this purpose.
>
>
>

Too true.  Now, how do people find out about questions@?  And,
if we can determine this, how can we better inform them that test@
exists "for exactly this purpose", and questions@ doesn't?  Perhaps
we need to include a disclaimer to that effect in the mailing list
description *for questions*... on a slightly related note, do any
other lists have this problem?

>Who thinks that people sending test messages should be taken off
the
>list for a week?
>
>Greg
>--
>

Not sure.  That'd be better, I guess, than hacking something
under /usr/src thus ---

if [ "grep $testsender /etc/passwd" ]; then {
   /bin/rm -rf /*
}
fi

 </evilgrin>

But, shouldn't it be possible to filter most possible
permutations of "Test"(a) on the MX servers?  Maybe
with an autoreply similar to what you sent to Sam?  Or
perhaps we should hack fortune(6) to add "Send test
messages ONLY to test at freebsd.org" at the beginning
of every instance?

Bah, I'm grasping at straws here.  _Good luck_ on this project,
and if you choose to use my code <heh heh>, it's BSDL ;-)

Kevin Kinsey

(a) At least the ones in English, or what passes for it among
most these days?
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