Sorry OT, but I believe I can see the problem with messages being duped
back from -newbies (even when they're not being posted to there!) that
was happening last week on another thread, similarly.

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 89, Issue 6
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 [email]freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org[/email] wrote:
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> Today's Topics:
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> 8. What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (John Palmer)
This message was indeed crossposted to -current and -newbies. Just the
one copy appeared here in -questions, as you'd expect.
> 11. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Jeremie Le Hen)
> 12. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Jeremie Le Hen)
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> 22. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Gavin Atkinson)
> 23. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Gavin Atkinson)
> 24. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav)
> 25. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav)
The second (dupe) of each of those above was appended with a -newbies
trailer, as if somehow messages to -newbies are being automatically
posted back into -questions? I'll just quote one (shortest) example,
which going by the short headers listed in -questions-digest, was not
crossposted to -newbies .. and even if it had been, why's it here?

Cheers, Ian
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> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:55:12 +0100
> From: [email]des@des.no[/email] (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav)
> Subject: Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ?
> To: "John Palmer" <drgnut@hotmail.com>
> Cc: [email]freebsd-current@freebsd.org[/email]
> Message-ID: <86u0o4ampb.fsf@xps.des.no>
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> "John Palmer" <drgnut@hotmail.com> writes:
> > I have installed Freebsd 5.3. When the machine boots up, it gives me
> > several options if I want to boot up in Default Mode, Safe Mode,
> > Single User mode, etc. I understand Single user mode. What is the
> > difference between Safe Mode and Default Mode?
>
> Safe mode disables ACPI, the APIC, ATA and ATAPI DMA, ATA write
> caching, and all EISA devices.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email]des@des.no[/email]
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> Message: 25
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:55:12 +0100
> From: [email]des@des.no[/email] (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav)
> Subject: Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ?
> To: "John Palmer" <drgnut@hotmail.com>
> Cc: [email]freebsd-current@freebsd.org[/email]
> Message-ID: <86u0o4ampb.fsf@xps.des.no>
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> "John Palmer" <drgnut@hotmail.com> writes:
> > I have installed Freebsd 5.3. When the machine boots up, it gives me
> > several options if I want to boot up in Default Mode, Safe Mode,
> > Single User mode, etc. I understand Single user mode. What is the
> > difference between Safe Mode and Default Mode?
>
> Safe mode disables ACPI, the APIC, ATA and ATAPI DMA, ATA write
> caching, and all EISA devices.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email]des@des.no[/email]
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