diff: /etc/motd: Tell people to subscribe questions@ before posting. To reduce noise on questions@ somewhat (& as a side effect, ensure newbies get all replies, (as some respondents just reply to lists, not to all previous thread participants, & some newbies might not realise. ) Fix: A patch in diff -c format is appended below, & a spare copy here http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/etc/motd.REL=ALL.diff How-To-Repeat: Read questions@ archive Subject: freebsd list admins? http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201106202352.24196.rsimmons0 obert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> "There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming it periodically" http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20110621074416.58869e66 Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> "Unfortunately, this is an "open" list; ie, anyone subscribed or not can post. This leads to the inevitable problems that plague this forum." http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201106212203.p5LM3NbI005159 "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> "I think we should: make questions@ list writable only to subscribers (if not already); & Edit /usr/src/etc/motd ... Should we send in a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd eg:" http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?BANLkTimoY58yWwdHYPrhKBzPQa0CYhxERw Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> "PR it. Sounds good."
State Changed From-To: open->closed 1) questions@ is open by design. postmaster@ has not said that -questions will be becoming a closed list. If after further discussion postmaster@ agrees this PR could be re-opened 2) FreeBSD prefers patches in the unified diff format not context diff format.