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1 | THE FREEBSD MAILING LIST FAQ |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | Though many of the FreeBSD development members read USENET, we cannot | |
| 4 | always guarantee that we'll get to your questions in a timely fashion | |
| 5 | (or at all) if you post them only to one of the comp.os.386bsd.* | |
| 6 | groups. By addressing your questions to the appropriate mailing list | |
| 7 | you will reach both us and a concentrated FreeBSD audience, invariably | |
| 8 | assuring a better (or at least faster) response. | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | The following is a current summary of the mailing lists in existence as | |
| 11 | of 31 Mar, 1994: | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| 14 | List Purpose | |
| 15 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 16 | freebsd-admim Administrative issues (limited) | |
| 17 | freebsd-arch Architecture and design discussions (limited) | |
| 18 | freebsd-scsi Discussions concerning the SCSI system | |
| 19 | freebsd-bugs Bug reports | |
| 20 | freebsd-tz Discussions of proper timezone handling | |
| 21 | freebsd-hackers Technical discussions and suggestions | |
| 22 | freebsd-questions User questions | |
| 23 | freebsd-announce Important events / milestones | |
| 24 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | Of all the lists, freebsd-arch and freebsd-admin have closed memberships | |
| 27 | limited to a small subset of core team members and developers, though anyone | |
| 28 | is free to send suggestions and commentary to them. The other lists may | |
| 29 | be freely joined by anyone. | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | All mailing lists live on `freefall.cdrom.com', so to post to a list you | |
| 32 | simply mail to `<listname>@freefall.cdrom.com'. It will then be redistributed | |
| 33 | to mailing list members throughout the world. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | To subscribe to a list, send mail to: | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | And include the keyword | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | subscribe <listname> [<optional address>] | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | In the body of your message. For example, to subscribe yourself to | |
| 44 | freebsd-hackers, you'd do: | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | % mail majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com | |
| 47 | subscribe freebsd-hackers | |
| 48 | ^D | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | If you want to subscribe yourself under a different name, or submit a | |
| 51 | subscription request for a local mailing list (note: this is more efficient | |
| 52 | if you have several interested parties at one site, and highly appreciated by | |
| 53 | us!), you would do something like: | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | % mail majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com | |
| 56 | subscribe freebsd-hackers local-hackers@somesite.com | |
| 57 | ^D | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | Finally, it is also possible to unsubscribe yourself from a list, get a | |
| 60 | list of other list members or see the list of mailing lists again by | |
| 61 | sending other types of control messages to majordomo. For a complete | |
| 62 | list of available commands, do this: | |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | % mail majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com | |
| 65 | help | |
| 66 | ^D | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | Finally, it is suggested that you only join the freebsd-hackers or | |
| 69 | freebsd-questions mailing lists if you're also willing to see upwards | |
| 70 | of 100 messages a day (peak)! If you're only interested in the "high points", | |
| 71 | then it's suggested that you join freebsd-announce, which will contain | |
| 72 | only infrequent traffic. | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | Thank you! | |
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