From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 25 4: 4:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B915B37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-233-156-170.client.attbi.com [12.233.156.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1709943E3B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6PB58eA004313; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6PB57Wu004312; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:05:07 -0700 From: David Schultz To: resident@grybel.mayn.de Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: subscribe freebsd-stable Message-ID: <20020725110507.GA4236@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <200207152133.g6FLXQb72508@osvald.void.ru> <20020716053638.A21324@grybel.mayn.de> <20020716195624.X1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> <20020725114644.77b8c398.resident@grybel.mayn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020725114644.77b8c398.resident@grybel.mayn.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Taking this thread away from -stable. Please CC me on replies.] Thus spake Uwe Ploss <520002375936-0001@t-online.de>: > That would be Chapter 19, "The Cutting Edge", subsections 19.2.1.4, 1) > and 19.2.2.3, 1): > > "To join these lists, send mail to > and specify the following in the body of your > message: > > subscribe freebsd-stable > subscribe cvs-all" > > I suggest to add something like the following near the quoted > passages (in big, red letters): > > "Note: in order to subscribe to a list DO NOT send mail to any other > address than !" There are many places in the documentation where some people (henceforth referred to as `illiteratte bums') might become confused, but I don't think the one you point out is one of them. I suspect it's usually the ones that mention the actual email address for a list, e.g. `stable@FreeBSD.ORG'. There are two things to be said for fixing these: fewer misdirected subscribe requests and less SPAM. (This assumes that the docs are changed to refer to the lists by name only and to explain how to send mail to the lists in meta terms.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message