From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 00:52:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA26598 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:52:33 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26371 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:51:40 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA01001 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:51:14 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA16203 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:51:13 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA16658 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:53:54 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511210753.IAA16658@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:53:53 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9950.816913266@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 20, 95 04:21:06 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1355 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 1. The host for .freebsd.org should use majordomo to manage > its list(s) so that sending mail to majordomo@.freebsd.org > can be assumed to work with the same syntax (we should probably > even agree to run the same version of majordomo everwhere). That seems fine to me. > 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. Hmm, how do we avoid mail loops? > 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..freebsd.org > would go somewhere meaningful for each value of . ad-hoc, i'd say ftp.germany.eu.net would be a reasonable default server for Germany. It's not on the official mirror list, but i know that they are mirroring the distributions. Short of this, "kuku"'s gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de would also be possible (but i'm afraid of overloading it -- Christoph?). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)