Test messages to -questions

[Lane]

On Friday 01 July 2005 10:29, fbsd_user wrote:
> 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?
> _______________________________________________
I agree!

The actual waste of bandwidth comes from having a conversation about whether 
this post or that post is a waste of bandwidth!

Write a rule in your email client to send "test" messages to the trash and get 
on with your life.

lane