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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.

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.

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like <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mail">mail(1)</a>,

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

Messages that do not include a plain text part will be summarily rejected.

them out to the rest of the list.

A small number of attachment types are allowed on the mailing lists to

If you don't use plain text, your messages will be reformatted.

support sending patches, shar files, images and small tar or zip files.

If they cannot be reformatted, they will be summarily rejected.

Other attachment types may cause messages to be send to the moderator

The only mailing lists that allow file attachments are the bugs,

for approval.

ports and tech lists.

They will be removed from messages on the others.

<dt>Do your homework before you post.

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<dt>Stay on topic.

<dd>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.

<dt>Include important information.