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. @@ -39,13 +40,11 @@ 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. +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.