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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!root From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: FreeBSD mailing list FAQ Approved: peter@taronga.com Sender: root@bonkers.taronga.com (Charlie Root) Organization: FreeBSD Project Message-ID: <DJF7L4.CoI@bonkers.taronga.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:08:17 GMT Lines: 112 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.