It's in everyone's interests to keep the signal:noise ratio high enough
that those developers still reading misc@ continue to do so. Sometimes
skipping it is best, sometimes it feels better to post on a thread to
try and dissuade other posts - I think this needs to happen from time
to time to keep up the quality of the questions :)

A suggestion...

www.bsdforums.org

a good, and possibly better, channel for user/admin class questions and