From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 9:38:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A32337BA66 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 28598 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2000 17:38:41 -0000 Received: from userap49.uk.uudial.com (HELO parish.my.domain) (62.188.136.10) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2000 17:38:41 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01116; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:38:53 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:38:53 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: John Baldwin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about subscribing to lists Message-ID: <20000305173853.D899@parish> References: <20000305170248.F388@parish> <200003051718.MAA00609@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003051718.MAA00609@server.baldwin.cx>; from jhb@freebsd.org on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:18:47PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:18:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 05-Mar-00 Mark Ovens wrote: > > I just tried subscribing to -current and got this back from majordomo (I've seen it before as well): > > > >>>>> subscribe current@freebsd.org > > You tried to "subscribe" to a closed list "current" at Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG. > > > > We have some closed lists: > > > > Some lists that are aliases for other lists. > > The list "test" is an alias for "freebsd-test". > > If you tried to subscribe a list of this type, > > please subscribe to "freebsd-current" instead. > > > > If you have any questions about the policy of the list > > owner, please contact "current-approval@FreeBSD.ORG". > > > > Why does one have to subscribe to "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" > > yet can post to just "current@freebsd.org"? > > The mailing lists used to be called 'current@', 'stable@', etc. However, > they were later renamed to 'freebsd-@' for clarity. To keep people > from having problems if they tried to mail to the old address, the old > list addresses simply forward to the new lists. The real list is > 'freebsd-current' and that is the one you should subscribe to. > Thanks for the explanation. Would it not make sense to have majordomo automatically link current@ to freebsd-current@ etc? for continuity, or is that not possible? > > -- > > Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? > > Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? > > BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? > > -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message