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<!-- $Id: eresources.sgml,v 1.1.1.1 1995/04/28 16:19:59 jfieber Exp $ -->
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<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<chapt>
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<heading>Additional resources on the Internet</heading>
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<sect>
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<heading>Mailing lists<label id="eresources:mailing-lists"></heading>
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<p><em>Contributed by &a.dufalt;.<newline>
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5 May 1995.</em>
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Though many of the FreeBSD development members read USENET, we cannot
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always guarantee that we'll get to your questions in a timely fashion
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(or at all) if you post them only to one of the comp.os.386bsd.*
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groups. By addressing your questions to the appropriate mailing list
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you will reach both us and a concentrated FreeBSD audience, invariably
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assuring a better (or at least faster) response.
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There are list charters at the bottom of this document. Please read
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the list charter before joining a list. We must strive to
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keep the signal to noise ratio of the lists high, especially in
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the technical lists.
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<sect1><heading>List summary</heading>
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<p><bf>General lists:</bf> The following are general lists that
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anyone is free to join:
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<verb>
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List Purpose
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freebsd-announce Important events / milestones
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freebsd-bugs Bug reports
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freebsd-chat Non technical items related to the community
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freebsd-policy Policy issues and suggestions
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freebsd-questions User questions
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freebsd-current Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
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</verb>
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<bf>Technical lists:</bf> The following are the technical lists. You should
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read the charter carefully before joining them, and you should keep
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your e-mail within the scope of the guidelines.
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<verb>
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List Purpose
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freebsd-doc Documentation project
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freebsd-fs Filesystems
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freebsd-hackers General Technical discussions
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freebsd-hardware General discussion of FreeBSD hardware
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freebsd-platforms Porting to Non-Intel platforms
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freebsd-ports Discussion of "ports"
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freebsd-security Security issues
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freebsd-scsi SCSI subsystem
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</verb>
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<bf>Limited lists:</bf> The following are limited lists that you will need
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approval to join. Even though access to these lists is controled,
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anyone is free to send suggestions and comments to them. It is a
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good idea establish a presence in the technical lists before asking
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to join one of these limited lists.
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<verb>
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List Purpose
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freebsd-admin Administrative issues
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freebsd-arch Architecture and design discussions
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freebsd-core FreeBSD core team
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freebsd-install Installation development
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</verb>
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<bf>CVS lists:</bf> The following lists are for people seeing the log messages
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for source changes in specific areas:
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<verb>
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List name Source area Area Description (source for)
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cvs-CVSROOT /usr/src/[A-Z]* Top level /usr/src file changes
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cvs-all /usr/src All changes to the tree (superset)
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cvs-bin /usr/src/bin System binaries
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cvs-etc /usr/src/etc System files
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cvs-games /usr/src/games Games
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cvs-gnu /usr/src/gnu GPL'd utilities
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cvs-include /usr/src/include Include files
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cvs-kerberosIV /usr/src/kerberosIV Kerberos encryption code
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cvs-lib /usr/src/lib System libraries
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cvs-libexec /usr/src/libexec System binaries
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cvs-ports /usr/ports Ported software
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cvs-sbin /usr/src/sbin System binaries
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cvs-share /usr/src/share System shared files
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cvs-sys /usr/src/sys Kernel
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cvs-usrbin /usr/src/usr.bin Use binaries
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cvs-usrsbin /usr/src/usr.sbin System binaries
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</verb>
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<sect1><heading>How to subscribe</heading>
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<p>All mailing lists live on `FreeBSD.ORG', so to post to a list you
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simply mail to `<listname>@FreeBSD.ORG'. It will then be redistributed
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to mailing list members throughout the world.
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To subscribe to a list, send mail to:
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<tscreen><verb>
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majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
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</verb></tscreen>
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And include the keyword
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<tscreen><verb>
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subscribe <listname> [<optional address>]
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</verb></tscreen>
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In the body of your message. For example, to subscribe yourself to
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freebsd-announce, you'd do:
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<tscreen><verb>
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% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
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subscribe freebsd-announce
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^D
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</verb></tscreen>
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If you want to subscribe yourself under a different name, or submit a
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subscription request for a local mailing list (note: this is more efficient
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if you have several interested parties at one site, and highly appreciated by
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us!), you would do something like:
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<tscreen><verb>
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% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
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subscribe freebsd-announce local-announce@somesite.com
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^D
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</verb></tscreen>
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Finally, it is also possible to unsubscribe yourself from a list, get a
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list of other list members or see the list of mailing lists again by
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sending other types of control messages to majordomo. For a complete
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list of available commands, do this:
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<tscreen><verb>
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% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
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help
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^D
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</verb></tscreen>
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Finally, we again request that you keep the technical mailing lists on
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a technical track. If you're only interested in the "high points",
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then it's suggested that you join freebsd-announce, which will contain
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only infrequent traffic.
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<sect1><heading>List charters</heading>
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/FREEBSD-ADMIN/ <em>Administrative issues</em><newline>
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<!-- XXX -->
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<tag/FREEBSD-ANNOUNCE/ <em>Important events / milestones</em><newline>
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This is the mailing list for people interested only in occasional
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announcements of significant freebsd events. This includes
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announcements about snapshots and other releases. It contains
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announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities. It may contain calls
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for volunteers etc. This is a low volume list.
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<tag/FREEBSD-ARCH/ <em>Architecture and design discussions</em><newline>
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This is the mailing list for people discussing FreeBSD architectural
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issues. It is a closed list, and not for general subscription.
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<tag/FREEBSD-BUGS/ <em>Bug reports</em><newline>
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This is the mailing list for reporting bugs in FreeBSD
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Whenever possible, bugs should be
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submitted using "send-pr".
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<tag/FREEBSD-CHAT/ <em>Non technical items related to the
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community</em><newline>
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This list contains the overflow from the other lists about
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non-technical, social information. It includes discussion about
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whether Jordan looks like a tune ferret or not, whether or not to
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type in capitals, who is drinking too much coffee, where the best
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beer is brewed, who is brewing beer in their basement, and so on.
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Occasional announcements of important events (such as upcoming
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parties, weddings, births, new jobs, etc) can be made to the
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technical lists, but the follow ups should be directed to this
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-chat list.
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<tag/FREEBSD-CORE/ <em>FreeBSD core team</em><newline>
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This is an internal mailing list for use by the core members.
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<tag/FREEBSD-CURRENT/ <em>Discussions about the use of
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FreeBSD-current</em><newline>
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This is the mailing list for users of freebsd-current. It includes
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warnings about new features coming out in -current that will affect the
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users, and instructions on steps that must be taken to remain -current.
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Anyone running "current" must subscribe to this list.
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<tag/FREEBSD-DOC/ <em>Documentation project</em><newline>
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This mailing list belongs to the FreeBSD Doc Project and is for
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the discussion of documentation related issues and projects.
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<tag/FREEBSD-FS/ <em>Filesystems</em><newline>
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Discussions concerning FreeBSD filesystems.
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<tag/FREEBSD-HACKERS/ <em>Technical discussions</em><newline>
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This is a forum for technical discussions related to FreeBSD. This
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is the primary technical mailing list. It
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is for individuals actively working on FreeBSD, to bring up problems
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or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in
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following the technical discussion are also welcome.
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<tag/FREEBSD-HARDWARE/ <em>General discussion of FreeBSD
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hardware</em><newline>
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General discussion about the types of hardware that FreeBSD runs on,
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various problems and suggestions concerning what to buy or avoid.
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<tag/FREEBSD-INSTALL/ <em>Installation discussion</em><newline>
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This is the mailing list for people discussing FreeBSD installation
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development for the 2.0 release.
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<tag/FREEBSD-PLATFORMS/ <em>Porting to Non-Intel
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platforms</em><newline>
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Cross-platform freebsd issues, general discussion and proposals for
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non-Intel FreeBSD ports.
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<tag/FREEBSD-POLICY/ <em>Policy issues and
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suggestions</em><newline>
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This is a forum for policy discussions related to FreeBSD. This
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includes where FreeBSD is going, how to set up a consortium, whether
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or not and how to make FreeBSD pay for itself, how to attract more
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users, and so on. When a topic relates directly to FreeBSD but has
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little or no technical content then it should be sent to this list.
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<tag/FREEBSD-PORTS/ <em>Discussion of "ports"</em><newline>
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Discussions concerning FreeBSD's "ports collection" (/usr/ports), proposed
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ports, modifications to ports collection infrastructure and general
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coordination efforts.
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<tag/FREEBSD-QUESTIONS/ <em>User questions</em><newline>
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This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not
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send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the
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question to be pretty technical.
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<tag/FREEBSD-SCSI/ <em>SCSI subsystem</em><newline>
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This is the mailing list for people working on the scsi subsystem
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for FreeBSD.
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<tag/FREEBSD-SECURITY/ <em>Security issues</em><newline>
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FreeBSD computer security issues (DES, Kerberos, known security holes and
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fixes, etc).
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</descrip>
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<sect>
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<heading>Usenet newsgroups</heading>
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<p>While no newsgroups dedicated to FreeBSD exist, there
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are many in which FreeBSD is discussed or are otherwise
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relevant to FreeBSD users.
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<sect1>
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<heading>BSD specific newsgroups</heading>
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<p><itemize>
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<item> comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
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<item> comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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</itemize>
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<sect1>
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<heading>Other Unix newsgroups of interest</heading>
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<p><itemize>
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<item> comp.unix
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<item> comp.unix.questions
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<item> comp.unix.admin
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<item> comp.unix.programmer
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<item> comp.unix.shell
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<item> comp.unix.user-friendly
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<item> comp.security.unix
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<item> comp.sources.unix
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<item> comp.unix.advocacy
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<item> comp.unix.misc
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<item> comp.os.386bsd.announce
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<item> comp.os.386bsd.apps
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<item> comp.os.386bsd.bugs
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<item> comp.os.386bsd.development
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<item> comp.os.386bsd.misc
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<item> comp.os.386bsd.questions
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<item> comp.bugs.4bsd
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<item> comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
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<item> comp.unix.bsd
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</itemize>
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<sect1>
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<heading>X-Window system</heading>
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<p><itemize>
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<item> comp.windows.x.i386unix
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<item> comp.windows.x
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<item> comp.windows.x.apps
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<item> comp.windows.x.announce
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<item> comp.windows.x.intrinsics
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<item> comp.windows.x.motif
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<item> comp.windows.x.pex
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<item> comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
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</itemize>
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<sect>
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<heading>Word Wide Web servers</heading>
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<p><itemize>
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<item> <url url="http://www.freebsd.org/"></item>
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</itemize>
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</sect>
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