Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:35:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tuna Phish <tunatuna@flash.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to unsubscribe (Was: New ports added/updated last two weeks) Message-ID: <19971104143558.41236@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <345E92AE.BF3ED893@flash.net>; from Tuna Phish on Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 07:12:46PM -0800 References: <199711030054.BAA01669@panke.panke.de> <345E92AE.BF3ED893@flash.net>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 07:12:46PM -0800, Tuna Phish wrote: > hello. how do i unsubscribe from your list please? I am starting to get > slightly annoyed at your messages filling my box every week and taking my > precious bandwidth, while i wait, excited, thinking that i have an email > reply from my old friend in Iowa, when no, I come to realize the fact that > freebsd has a 20k list of ports that i MUST know about. and THIS TIME, it > was sent THREE TIMES! I'm starting to get a bit annoyed at people who didn't save the instructions they were asked to save when they signed up for this list. Each of you got explicit instructions telling you how to sign off. Here's an except from a message I send to FreeBSD-questions every Monday. It applies equally well to all other FreeBSD mailing lists. Please read it and do what it says. Greg How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. =================================================== Last update 27 October 1997. This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: (... omitting other sins) - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions ============================================== When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG. In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to "Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG" with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as grog@lemis.de. Since then, I have changed it to grog@lemis.com. If I were to try to remove grog@lemis.com from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to Postmaster@FreeBSD.org, and he will sort things out for you. Don't send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: Should I ask -questions or -hackers? ========================================= Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In some cases, it's not really clear which group you should ask. The following criteria should help for 99% of all questions, however: If the question is of a general nature, ask FreeBSD-questions. Examples might be questions about intstalling FreeBSD or the use of a particular UNIX utility. If you think the question relates to a bug, but you're not sure, or you don't know how to look for it, send the message to FreeBSD-questions. If the question relates to a bug, and you're sure that it's a bug (for example, you can pinpoint the place in the code where it happens, and you maybe have a fix), then send the message to FreeBSD-hackers. If the question relates to enhancements to FreeBSD, and you can make suggestions about how to implement them, then send the message to FreeBSD-hackers. There are also a number of other specialized mailing lists, for example FreeBSD-isp, which caters to the interests of ISPs (Internet Service Providers) who run FreeBSD. If you happen to be an ISP, this doesn't mean you should automatically send your questions to FreeBSD-isp. The criteria above still apply, and it's in your interest to stick to them, since you're more likely to get good results that way.
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