From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 17:47:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C331065672 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:47:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7E38FC0A for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:47:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws4 with SMTP id 4so196723vws.13 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:47:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.85.210 with SMTP id p18mr5002787qcl.263.1289843275484; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:47:55 -0800 (PST) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.220.184.170 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:47:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:47:55 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: EqC46GdzFIym2dJNKDNmnhdZOAw Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: Mohsen Mostafa Jokar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:47:57 -0000 On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar wrote: > Hello. > My name is mohsen,I'm a student in software engineering.I'm from Iran. > I see Non-English Mailing lists in FreeBSD web site,and i understand FreeBSD > not have mailing list for my countery. > FrreBSD is popular distro in my country,I want know for create new mailing > list for my country what should i do? > I thankful If you guide me. Hi Mohsen, Look at the statement at the bottom of the non-English mailing list bullets: "If you create other FreeBSD mailing lists, let us know about them." The link points to here: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html You would need to round-up local FBSD user groups to see if they can contribute to the maintenance of your server and Internet/Hosting costs. Probably your best bet is a University that is willing to host the server for you. Once you have firgured out who and how you are going to cover the costs of your mailing list and tie a domain to it. A domain like FreeBSD would almost certainly be taken, in your case, Mr. Mehdi Halataei has registered FreeBSD.ir but FreeBSD.org.ir is free so the first thing I would do is go to http://www.nic.ir/ before some else takes it. I would also contact Mr. Halataei to see what his intentions are with that domain and maybe work together. Once you have solved the issues above, get yourself some hardware and set-up Mailman for your list. Once the list is ___working and active___, contact the FBSD people to see if they can add it to the non-English list. There may be some legal issues here because of the export controls to Iran, in fact, there are probably even legal issues downloading FBSD to Iran in the first place, although I think that most components and ports qualify for exception of category 5 part II of EAR, but I'm not an expert and this issue has come up several times here so check the archives for more information. A cheaper and fast alternative is to use Google Groups but I don't know if it's legal or not, because as you probably know Google has no direct presence in Iran. Check out with them first before you use that option so later you won't lose your list archives if they shut down the list. -- Alejandro Imass