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THE FREEBSD MAILING LIST FAQ
$Id: mailing-list.FAQ,v 1.5 1995/01/03 15:54:04 gclarkii Exp $
--
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 summary of the mailing lists:
List Purpose
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freebsd-admim Administrative issues (limited)
freebsd-arch Architecture and design discussions (limited)
freebsd-bugs Bug reports
freebsd-hackers Technical discussions and suggestions
freebsd-questions User questions
freebsd-announce Important events / milestones
freebsd-current Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
freebsd-commit Commit messages to source repository
freebsd-core FreeBSD core team (limited)
freebsd-security Security issues
freebsd-fs Filesystems
freebsd-ports Discussion of "ports"
freebsd-platforms Porting to Non-Intel platforms
freebsd-hardware General discussion of FreeBSD hardware
freebsd-install Installation issues (limited)
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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-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
cvs-ports /usr/ports Ported software
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Even though the lists freebsd-core, freebsd-admin, freebsd-install and
freebsd-arch are closed, anyone is free to send suggestions and comments
to them. All other lists are open.
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 throughout 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-hackers, you'd do:
% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
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@FreeBSD.ORG
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@FreeBSD.ORG
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.
Thank you!
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