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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: FreeBSD mailing list FAQ
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:08:17 GMT
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The following mailing lists are available for FreeBSD users and enthusiasts.
General lists. The following are general lists that anyone is free to join:
List Purpose
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freebsd-announce Important events / milestones
freebsd-bugs Bug reports
freebsd-chat Non technical items related to the community
freebsd-current Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
freebsd-isp Issues for Internet Service Providers using FreeBSD
freebsd-policy Policy issues and suggestions
freebsd-questions User questions
Technical lists: The following are the technical lists. You should read the
charter carefully before joining them, keeping any e-mail you send to them
within the scope of their guidelines.
List Purpose
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freebsd-doc The FreeBSD Documentation project
freebsd-fs Filesystems
freebsd-hackers General Technical discussions
freebsd-hardware General discussion of FreeBSD hardware
freebsd-multimedia Multimedia discussions
freebsd-platforms Porting to Non-Intel platforms
freebsd-ports Discussion of "ports"
freebsd-security Security issues
freebsd-scsi SCSI subsystem
Limited lists: The following are limited lists that you will need approval
to join. Even though access to these lists is controled, anyone is free to
send suggestions and comments to them. It is a good idea establish a presence
in the technical lists before asking to join one of these limited lists.
List Purpose
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freebsd-admin Administrative issues
freebsd-arch Architecture and design discussions
freebsd-core FreeBSD core team
freebsd-install Installation development
freebsd-user-groups User group coordination
CVS lists: The following lists are for people seeing the log messages for
source changes in specific areas:
List name Source area Area Description (source for)
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cvs-CVSROOT /usr/src/[A-Z]* Top level /usr/src file changes
cvs-all /usr/src All changes to the tree (superset)
cvs-bin /usr/src/bin System binaries
cvs-etc /usr/src/etc System files
cvs-games /usr/src/games Games
cvs-gnu /usr/src/gnu GPL'd utilities
cvs-include /usr/src/include Include files
cvs-kerberosIV /usr/src/kerberosIV Kerberos encryption code
cvs-lib /usr/src/lib System libraries
cvs-libexec /usr/src/libexec System binaries
cvs-ports /usr/ports Ported software
cvs-sbin /usr/src/sbin System binaries
cvs-share /usr/src/share System shared files
cvs-sys /usr/src/sys Kernel
cvs-usrbin /usr/src/usr.bin Use binaries
cvs-usrsbin /usr/src/usr.sbin System binaries
How to subscribe / post to a list:
All mailing lists live on FreeBSD.ORG, so to post to a list you simply mail
to <listname>@FreeBSD.ORG. It will then be redistributed to mailing list
members around the world.
To subscribe to a list, send mail to:
majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
And include the keyword
subscribe <listname> [<optional address>]
In the body of your message. For example, to subscribe yourself to
freebsd-announce, you'd do:
% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
subscribe freebsd-announce
^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@FreeBSD.ORG
subscribe freebsd-announce local-announce@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@FreeBSD.ORG
help
^D
Again, we do request that you keep the technical mailing lists on a
technical track. If you're only interested in the "high points" then it's
suggested that you join freebsd-announce, which is used only for infrequent
traffic.