You may not like it, and that is your choice. I, and many others, find this a useful mail, posted once a week so those
This is becoming a nice long thread isn't it..
I sent a request to the redhat list maintainer a couple of weeks ago (with no reply of course) to make some changes to the Info page for this list, and the welcome mail.. First and foremost, warning users that this is a VERY high traffic list. They seem to join, get very upset at all the mail they are getting, get even more frustrated, and freak out (several threads of freaking out last week alone)..
This is one of those things that would be nice on that page or in the welcome email. A link to it, asking people to look it over before asking questions (Although, new users typically disregard that from what I've seen, due to them not really knowing netiquette).
Anyway.. Hell, even if the FAQ was in the entire welcome message.. one 50k signup message wouldn't kill anyone.
I don't mind it being posted to the list every week.. hell, post it every day for all I care.. the beauty of pine and procmail is that i can thread, delete, sort, and disregard whatever the hell I please.. and the 50k of bandwidth to me personally doesn't hurt (And unless redhat is sitting on a dsl line.. probably isn't hurting them too much either.. but blah blah, i know.. it adds up.. the overall effect of the net.. blah blah.. There were 80 billion spams sent yesterday with embedded images.. )
In summary: Keep sending the faq to the list, but it should be added to the welcome email when you sub to this list.. that is the best way to communicate it to the users.
Or.. get some structure on this list.. Admins, moderators.. etc.. let them setup a procmail script that sends a direct email to each new subscribers welcoming them, explaining basic netiquette, pointing out the faq.. warning of the high volume.. if you have about 10 moderators.. and say 100 people sign up a day (probably not that high).. thats 10 automated scripts that go out.. of which, maybe 1/2 the users will actually reply.. ok, maybe thats extreme.
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