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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce
Subject: [FreeBSD] FreeBSD Mailing List FAQ
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Date: 2 Apr 1994 18:54:03 -0800
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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Summary: Mail majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com for FreeBSD mailing list info
Keywords: FreeBSD, mailing lists
This is a periodic announcement to inform people of the FreeBSD mailing
lists, on which the bulk of our technical and user support conversations
take place.
Though many of the FreeBSD development members read USENET, we cannot
always guarantee that we'll get to your questions in a timely fashion
(or at all) if you post them only to one of the comp.os.386bsd.*
groups. By addressing your questions to the appropriate mailing list
you will reach both us and a concentrated FreeBSD audience, invariably
assuring a better (or at least faster) response.
The following is a current summary of the mailing lists in existence as
of 02 Apr, 1994. Since the last announcement, the freebsd-current mailing
list has been created.
List Purpose
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
freebsd-admim Administrative issues (limited)
freebsd-arch Architecture and design discussions (limited)
freebsd-current Discussions concerning FreeBSD-current
freebsd-scsi Discussions concerning the SCSI system
freebsd-bugs Bug reports
freebsd-tz Discussions of proper timezone handling
freebsd-hackers Technical discussions and suggestions
freebsd-questions User questions
freebsd-announce Important events / milestones
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Of all the lists, freebsd-arch and freebsd-admin have closed memberships
limited to a small subset of core team members and developers, though anyone
is free to send suggestions and commentary to them. The other lists may
be freely joined by anyone.
All mailing lists live on `freefall.cdrom.com', so to post to a list you
simply mail to `<listname>@freefall.cdrom.com'. It will then be redistributed
to mailing list members throughout the world.
To subscribe to a list, send mail to:
majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com
And include the keyword
subscribe <listname> [<optional address>]
In the body of your message. For example, to subscribe yourself to
freebsd-hackers, you'd do:
% mail majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com
subscribe freebsd-hackers
^D
If you want to subscribe yourself under a different name, or submit a
subscription request for a local mailing list (note: this is more efficient
if you have several interested parties at one site, and highly appreciated by
us!), you would do something like:
% mail majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com
subscribe freebsd-hackers local-hackers@somesite.com
^D
Finally, it is also possible to unsubscribe yourself from a list, get a
list of other list members or see the list of mailing lists again by
sending other types of control messages to majordomo. For a complete
list of available commands, do this:
% mail majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com
help
^D
Finally, it is suggested that you only join the freebsd-hackers or
freebsd-questions mailing lists if you're also willing to see upwards
of 100 messages a day (peak)! If you're only interested in the "high points",
then it's suggested that you join freebsd-announce, which will contain
only infrequent traffic. If you're one of those running FreeBSD-current,
then it is almost _MANDATORY_ that you subscribe to freebsd-current. You
will otherwise have no way of knowing what issues are currently outstanding
in respect to possible bugs, feature changes requiring special action on your
part, etc.
Thank you!
--
Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous
On the net, no one can hear you scream.
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Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to:
386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu