if you break it up then the newbies will just post to both lists.
-----Original Message-----
From: dan.kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 1:58 PM
To: Brett Randall; Charles Cazabon
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: slow smtp connection
or how about breaking up the list to qmail-newbiesand qmail-arch, or
somthing
similar? i know this has been suggested before.
dan
On Tue, 01 May 2001, Brett Randall wrote:
> >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > A note to potential qmail newbies: we'll help you. Honestly. You
> > just have to promise to do your homework, give it an honest try
> > before asking for help, and to post good problem reports (detailing
> > what you did, what the system did, and what you thought it was going
> > to do instead, with complete logs and contents of control files).
> > If you're not willing to promise that much, you will receive nothing
> > but beatings for your pains, in this list, or anywhere else in life
> > for that matter.
>
> Why isn't this type of message in the qmail-subscribe auto-generated
> reply? I have suggested this many times myself, and seen many other
> people suggest it as well. Simply pointing out this kind of thing and
> linking to the major sources of documentation would save a bundle of
> time and emotion. Of course, one could also point out that having the
> list message-moderated with a couple of good moderators in a couple of
> opposing timezones would significantly increase the signal to noise
> ratio.
> --
> "Pascal, n.: A programming language named after a man who would turn over
> in his grave if he knew about it."
>
> - The Chartered Institution of C Programmers
