From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12957 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2002 18:49:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12774 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2002 18:49:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bellana) (213.58.34.86) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 2002 18:49:41 -0000 Received: from toos ([192.168.0.231]:2131) by bellana with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id GZLGR9-0000J0-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:21:09 +0000 Received: from toos ([127.0.0.1]:1634) by toos with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id GZLCU2-0000YS-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 08:56:27 +0000 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:40:00 -0000 From: Raphael cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FYI: HTML targets in "Smart Questions" In-Reply-To: <20020719173316.A15777@ns.helixdigital.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01630.txt.bz2 On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Dario Alcocer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 07:37:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Actually, I suspect that most people who post here would benefit from > > reading the whole page. In fact, they should read it several times. > > Yes, *very* good point; several readings might be necessary for > some. Along those lines, I think I'll look into what it would take > for ezmlm to auto-reply subscribers (those making their first or > second post) with a message containing a URL to ESR's essay. If this list is starting autoreplying I will quit it immediatly, trafic is (not counting repeated spam) high enough as it is. > Maybe > they have to pass a quiz before they can post (now *that* should > go over real well.) OTOH, maybe it would improve the signal/noise > ratio. IMHO the stupidest idea I've read till now, split the list in a 'dummies' and a 'BOFH' version but dont start disciminating through automated ballotage. The split is IMHO long overdue anyway, half of what I read is giberish to me anyway (yup put me in with the 'dummies') and resigning the list because of this has come to mind several times. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/