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Mailing lists are an important means of communication among users and developers of OpenBSD. ! With the exception of announce, the lists are not moderated. We deliberately restrict the number of different mailing lists. This helps reduce the amount of cross-posting and makes sure that the information gets distributed to a wide audience. --- 23,30 ----

Mailing lists are an important means of communication among users and developers of OpenBSD. ! With the exception of announce, the lists are not moderated ! (but see below). We deliberately restrict the number of different mailing lists. This helps reduce the amount of cross-posting and makes sure that the information gets distributed to a wide audience. *************** *** 39,51 **** like mail(1), emacs or mutt, and they often find HTML-formatted messages (or lines that stretch beyond 72 characters) unreadable. ! Most OpenBSD mailing lists strip messages of MIME content before sending ! them out to the rest of the list. ! If you don't use plain text, your messages will be reformatted. ! If they cannot be reformatted, they will be summarily rejected. ! The only mailing lists that allow file attachments are the bugs, ! ports and tech lists. ! They will be removed from messages on the others.

Do your homework before you post. --- 40,50 ---- like mail(1), emacs or mutt, and they often find HTML-formatted messages (or lines that stretch beyond 72 characters) unreadable. ! Messages that do not include a plain text part will be summarily rejected. ! A small number of attachment types are allowed on the mailing lists to ! support sending patches, shar files, images and small tar or zip files. ! Other attachment types may cause messages to be send to the moderator ! for approval.

Do your homework before you post. *************** *** 82,87 **** --- 81,91 ----
Stay on topic.
Please keep the subject of the post relevant to users of OpenBSD. + Users who post off-topic messages may find that their messages + are sent to the moderator for approval before being posted (or dropped). + Posts containing bullying or abusive language may also result in a + user's subsequent messages being sent to a moderator for approval. + Repeat offenders will have their messages silently dropped.

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