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<font color="#e00000">Mailing Lists</font>

Mailing Lists

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Mailing lists are an important means of communication among users and

developers of OpenBSD.

With the exception of <b>announce</b>, the lists are not moderated.

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<h2 id="Netiquette">Netiquette</h2>

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Be considerate of other subscribers on the mailing lists.

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<dt><b>Do your homework before you post</b>

<dd>If you have an installation question, make sure that you have read

the relevant documents, such as the <tt>INSTALL.*</tt> text files in the

the relevant documents, such as the <code>INSTALL.*</code> text files in the

installation directories, the <a href="faq/index.html">FAQ</a> and the

relevant man pages (start with

<a href= "https://man.openbsd.org/afterboot">afterboot(8)</a>).

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The OpenBSD lists use <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/spamd">spamd(8)</a>

and <a href="https://spamassassin.apache.org">SpamAssassin</a> to keep down the

spam volume, but things do sneak through from time to time -- deal with it.

spam volume, but things do sneak through from time to time — deal with it.

In addition, the list server also has regex-based rules to reject emails

based on some common spam and virus telltales.

If you get spam through one of the OpenBSD mailing lists, you don't need to

send a copy to the list owner -- chances are he's already seen it.

send a copy to the list owner — chances are he's already seen it.

Also, please do <b>not</b> submit spam received through the

mailing lists to <a href="http://spamcop.net">spamcop</a>,

as this will result in the list server being added to their RBL.

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<h2 id="Lists">General interest lists</h2>

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These lists are of interest to most users of OpenBSD.

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<a href="https://github.com/openbgpd-portable/openbgpd-portable">Github</a>.

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<h3>Developer lists</h3>

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These lists are for technical discussions of aspects of OpenBSD.

They are NOT for beginners or average users, they are not for problem

reporting (unless you are including a good fix) and they are not for

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<dt><b>tech@openbsd.org</b>

<dd>Discussion of technical topics for OpenBSD developers and advanced users.

This is <b>not</b> a "tech support" forum - do not use it as such.

This is <b>not</b> a "tech support" forum — do not use it as such.

OpenBSD developers will often make patches to implement new features

and other important changes available for public testing through this list.

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<h3>Platform-specific lists</h3>

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These lists are focused on user issues and development on individual

platforms.

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<h2 id="Majordomo">Managing list membership via Majordomo</h2>

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If you want to be sent a complete list with all mailing lists available

at openbsd.org, send the command <tt>lists</tt> in the body of

at openbsd.org, send the command <code>lists</code> in the body of

a message to

<a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.

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To subscribe to a given list, send mail to

<a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>

with a message body of "subscribe <tt>mailing-list-name</tt>" (where

with a message body of "subscribe <code>mailing-list-name</code>" (where

<tt>mailing-list-name</tt> is the name of your preferred list).

<code>mailing-list-name</code> is the name of your preferred list).

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For further assistance, send a message body of "help" to

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<h2 id="Web">Managing list membership via the web</h2>

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Your membership to the OpenBSD mailing lists can also be managed via

a web interface at <a href="https://lists.openbsd.org">lists.openbsd.org</a>.

<h2 id="Tricks">Mailing list tricks</h2>

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There are a number of very useful options that can be selected, either

by the <a href="https://lists.openbsd.org">web interface</a> or through

<a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">Majordomo</a>.

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delivery by the mail server for the time of your vacation and have

delivery automatically resume upon your scheduled return using the command:

set ALL nomail-14d

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This will suspend your subscription to all mailing lists for 14 days

(<tt>-14d</tt>).

(<code>-14d</code>).

More details and options can be seen on the

Majordomo overview page</a>.

<h3>Digests</h3>

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If you would prefer to see a "digest" (a consolidated listing of all the

messages for a time period), rather than getting messages individually

in "real-time" form, you can use the commands:

set misc digest-daily

set misc digest-daily<br>

set source-changes digest-weekly

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for daily digests of the <b>misc</b> list, and weekly digests of the

<b>source-changes</b> list.

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<h2 id="OtherLists">Other mailing lists</h2>

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The fine folks at <a href="http://www.squish.net/openbsd/">squish.net</a> run

mailing lists with daily and weekly digests of the OpenBSD <b>source-changes</b>

and <b>ports-changes</b> mailing list.

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<h2 id="nonEnglish">Non-English lists</h2>

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Several non-English speaking mailing lists related to OpenBSD are available

separately.

Here is a list of the currently known mailing lists:

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<br>To subscribe, send an empty message to

openbsd+subscribe@uaoug.org.ua</a>

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