RE: Donation For Earthquake Relief Work [moved back]

From: oldfart@gtonet
Date: 03/31/01 

From: "oldfart@gtonet" <oldfart@gtonet.net>
To: "Chris Byrnes" <chris@jeah.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:21:09 -0800

Yeah, that extra 5-10 seconds it takes to type a username/password must be
Hell for some. Luckily most modern browsers have an "auto complete" feature
which will remember your login for you. Cookies might be of help as well.

If you're referring to reading a forum, it takes the same amount of time to
read a message no matter if it's e-mail based or web based. In fact, if it
were a forum you could easily skip threads of no interest without having to
delete e-mail(s).

Again, just my 2 cents,

OF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Byrnes
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:12 PM
> To: oldfart@gtonet
> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: Donation For Earthquake Relief Work [moved]
>
>
> > Spoken like a true spammer. Spammers often defend their actions
> by saying
> > "you can always delete it." Well, that's just not good enough
> for me. It,
> > most certainly, WOULD help to limit posting to subscribers. It might not
> > stop all the spam but it would some. Personally, I'd like to
> see the lists
> > moved to a web bulletin board type forum. Then you don't get e-mails for
> > subjects that aren't of interest and you can browse and post (if
> > registered/subscribed) from any browser. The archives are nice
> but you can't
> > post without an e-mail account. Spammers prefer e-mail so using a forum
> > might even stop more spam. I'm pretty sure FreeBSD could handle
> a web based
> > forum :)
>
> ..an age-old discussion. Most of us don't have time to login to forums,
> etc., unfortunately.
>
>
> -C
>
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