From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 25 2:47: 4 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 0948737B407 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A4E43E7B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:46:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 520002375936-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17XfCy-0000QS-08; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:46:56 +0200 Received: from grybel.mayn.de (520002375936-0001@[80.133.250.79]) by fwd05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17XfCn-0xDZ0iC; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:46:45 +0200 Received: (qmail 17692 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 09:46:44 -0000 Received: from zebulon.hustr.prv (192.168.1.3) by grybel.hustr.prv with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 09:46:44 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:46:44 +0200 From: 520002375936-0001@t-online.de (Uwe Ploss) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: subscribe freebsd-stable Message-Id: <20020725114644.77b8c398.resident@grybel.mayn.de> In-Reply-To: <20020716195624.X1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> References: <200207152133.g6FLXQb72508@osvald.void.ru> <20020716053638.A21324@grybel.mayn.de> <20020716195624.X1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Reply-To: resident@grybel.mayn.de Organization: Chaos X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520002375936-0001@t-dialin.net 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 On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:56:24 +0200 Gerhard Sittig wrote: > Which part of the handbook are you talking about? I have here: 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 !" > ----- snip ------------------------------------------------------ > [ Appendix C. Resources on the Internet ] > [ C.1. Mailing Lists ] > C.1.2. How to Subscribe [...] > To subscribe to a list, send mail to > and include > subscribe [] [...] > ----- snap ------------------------------------------------------ Same for here. > How can one misunderstand the instructions? It even has an I don't know how and why, but it does happen. cc: to -doc. regards -- Linus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message