You know, I signed up on this list and I was expecting quite a few email. I got a lot more then I was expecting, but I used to be a member of the mopar mailing list, and they got 300-500 emails a day. I mean, I'd not check my email for a weekend and have almost 4000 emails to go through sometimes. That was extreame. I like this list because if I know something I can email the person and help them. I'm hardly a guru at linux but I'm versed enough to make it work. <rant> ...then of course I buy this sweet new mpx board for my dual MP1800+s and then I get it all installed and fire it up and find out its not compatable with my current video card, so I go out and get a new one. Pretty nice, kind of a fix untill I can get the money for a nice one. THEN I re-install FC2, its just nice to have a fresh install with a new setup. *shrug* but everytime it initilizes the graphics card, it locks up the machine. As long as I run at level 3 its fine. I can do ANYTHING I want, cruz the net check my email burn cd's (shoot, I can even watch dvd's using aaxine) however, anytime I try and startx, the hole system goes to pot and locks up. So now I'm stuck using XP as my primary os and I dont even like it. I cant find anyone else with this problem, and I cant find anyone who knows anything about it. I'm currently talking to the engineer that developed the chipset on my board to see if he knows anything about it. I dont even know what to do at this point. *ARGH* </rant> Sorry about that. Just had to get it out. On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:45:19 -0700 (PDT), netmask <netmask@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > </end incoherent rambling> > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
