From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Feb 26 12:46:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE4837B41D for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:46:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB006BD48 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:46:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11839 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:46:20 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1QKmUO07633; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:48:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestions for handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 26 Feb 2002 12:48:30 -0800 Message-ID: <1wzo1wufz5.o1w@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 1) I've seen a couple of questions about how to get a new mailing list created. (And another suggestion that I get one started for the discussion of proposed PRs, which I think would get read too little.) I suggest that a "C.1.4 List Creation" section be added to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html but I don't know what to put in there. Maybe "Contact postmaster"? 2) The above web page should have the list charter for freebsd-www; the description under "Limited lists" ("Maintainers of www.FreeBSD.org") is rather unhelpful. I thought that's what -doc was for. 3) Three occurances of (non-) "FreeBSD related" should have the space replaced with an hyphen. (There is already one "FreeBSD-related".) 4) Since mailing addresses like "doc@freebsd.org" are permitted, it would be helpful to have that stated on the page. I'm not sure if it's true for only a few lists or for all which start with "freebsd-". P.S. I found the discussion of "Limited lists" a bit nebulous, like maybe it was trying to not be open about some things. Is subscription screened? Is it really about "audiences" and "interest" (many of the technical lists should then qualify) or really about limiting discussion to important contributors (quite reasonably, eg, to keep "noise" down)? Are they segregated just because they refuse to publish guidelines? Why is -install not under "Technical lists"? It might be better to just have Technical and Non-Technical lists and let the lists describe themselves and their desires/requirements for subscribers in their charters. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message