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Netiquette

Be considerate of other subscribers on the mailing lists.

Plain text, 72 characters per line

Many subscribers read their mail on text-based mailers (mail(1), emacs) and they find HTML-formatted messages, or lines that stretch beyond 72 characters often unreadable. MIME encapsulated enclosures also cause problems. Only send non-text if you have received the OK from the intended recipient. We realise that many newcomers are stuck with Windows-based mailers that don't give them any control over what they send, but we ask that they make a conscious effort to switch over as soon as possible to a more reader-friendly mailer.

Do your homework before you post

If you have an installation question, make sure that you have read the relevant documents such as the INSTALL.* text files in the FTP installation directories, the FAQ and the relevant man pages (start with afterboot(8)). Make sure you include relevant details (version, hardware, dmesg(8)) that will help in troubleshooting. We want to help, but we wouldn't want to deprive you of a valuable learning experience.

Trim your signature

Keep the signature lines at the bottom of your mail to a reasonable length. Posts are rarely critical enough to warrant a PGP signature, and those automatic address cards are merely annoying.

Stay on topic

Please keep the subject of the post relevant to users of OpenBSD.

The Mailing Lists

To subscribe to a given list, send mail to majordomo@OpenBSD.org with a message body of "subscribe mailing-list-name".

announce

Important announcements. This low volume list is excellent for people who just want occasional news about the project.

security-announce

Security announcements. This low volume list receives OpenBSD security advisories and pointers to security patches as they become available.

misc

User questions and answers, general questions. This is the most active list. Please read the FAQ and the installation documents before you post.

tech

Technical topics for OpenBSD developers and advanced users. Please direct 'new user' and installation-related questions to misc. Please do not cross-post to both misc and tech.

bugs

Bug reports as sent in via sendbug(1) and follow-up discussions.

source-changes

Automated mailout of CVS source tree changes.

ports

Discussions about using and contributing to the 'ports' source tree.

advocacy

Promoting the use of OpenBSD. Non-technical discussions in misc often get shunted here.

smp

Discussion of Symmetric Multi-Processing design and implementation on OpenBSD.

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The clever monkeys at monkey.org maintain the openbsd-mobile list for people using OpenBSD on mobile and laptop computers. To subscribe:
echo subscribe | mail openbsd-mobile-request@monkey.org

Non-English Lists

A Japanese-language mailing list related to OpenBSD is also available separately.

A Polish-language mailing list related to OpenBSD is also available separately. To subscribe, send mail to OpenBSD-request@hack.pl.

openbsd@bofh.kyrnet.kg is a Russian-language mailing list related to OpenBSD available separately.
To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@bofh.kyrnet.kg.

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