Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:18:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: "M.Elkholy" <elkholy@sc.soficom.com.eg> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailing list Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960615140837.3514B-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <31C33D57.47EB@sc.soficom.com.eg>
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On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, M.Elkholy wrote: > Hi, > > I want FreeBSD mailing lists. > > Thanks and best regards, > M.Elkholy To subscribe to any of the FreeBSD mailing lists, you need to send mail to the program that handles the lists, at majordomo@FreeBSD.org. This program doesn't read the subject line, so don't worry about that. The format of the commands to majordomo is one line per command. A real useful one is: help If you send help, it will send you (fairly rapidly) a nice little informative writeup on how to use majordomo administered mailing lists. Another command that you might find useful is "lists", which returns a list of the different mailing lists that the majordomo you mailed to handles. You'd want to send this, so you can decide which of the lists you might want to subscribe to. If I can make a suggestion pointed at users new to the FreeBSD mailing lists, they are sometimes very, very active, and if you subscribe to several lists at once, you might be shocked to find several hundred pieces of mail in your mailbox the next day. You probably want to be careful in how many you subscribe to, and check your mail every day. To actually subscribe to a list, well, a very good choice for someone new to FreeBSD is the FreeBSD-questions list, and you'd subscribe as follows (I took your mail address from this message, you might want to modify it if you want the lists messages to go elsewhere): subscribe FreeBSD-questions elkholy@sc.soficom.com.eg If you send stuff at the end of your messages, you can expect majordomo to get confused, and send you the "help" message automatically. Avoid this by making the last command "end", so majordomo doesn't continue scanning for commands into your .sig. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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