Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:21:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! Message-ID: <9950.816913266@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:45:04 %2B0100." <199511201945.UAA02693@keltia.freenix.fr>
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> It seems that Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > countries, perhaps? A French version and, of course, Italian? I > > I already posted (in english for lack of time) the announce in the french > BSD newsgroup. > > > addresses like ``anmerkung@de.freebsd.org'' to DTRT. C'mon, folks, > > let's get more regional resources online and put them under the > > "umbrella" of freebsd.org! One mail exchanger and majordomo server > > per country is all it takes! > > I'm not the maintainer of a particular machine in France, but I think we > could do that on this one. Well, I think we can set some minimum standards here, at least, so that anyone wishing to send me a DNS entry knows what to do *first* before contacting me: 1. The host for <dom>.freebsd.org should use majordomo to manage its list(s) so that sending mail to majordomo@<dom>.freebsd.org can be assumed to work with the same syntax (we should probably even agree to run the same version of majordomo everwhere). 2. The host should have list entries (real lists, not aliases!) for announce, hackers, stable, current, questions & bugs, at a minimum. Any other lists like "platforms" or "scsi" could be optional. If the list names are also translated (e.g. you have "frage" instead of "questions" or something), then the translated names should be done as aliases for the english names, or vice- versa. Just so long as both work at each domain contact point. 3. The host should subscribe its regional mailing lists to the main lists on freebsd.org, and those subscribers directly on the main lists should move their subscriptions to the regional contact point as soon as it's convenient. I would also like to talk with people in the various countries about appointing a region-wide ftp server as the default one. I don't know which criteria you'll use, but it would be nice if ftp.<dom>.freebsd.org would go somewhere meaningful for each value of <dom>. Comments? Jordan
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