From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 11:22:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA14305 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:22:04 -0800 Received: from trinity.radio-do.de (trinity.Radio-do.de [193.101.164.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14293 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:21:59 -0800 From: Frank Nobis Message-Id: <199511211921.UAA17913@trinity.radio-do.de> Received: by trinity.radio-do.de (8.6.11/TRINITY-1.2.0-f) via EUnet id UAA17913; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 20:21:42 +0100 Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 20:21:41 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511210753.IAA16658@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 21, 95 08:53:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1713 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?). > I will ask at EUnet tomorrow. The only problem could be shortage of space. As by now the mirror is not complete. Most of the subdirs are empty. A mailing list would depend on mail.Germany.EU.net, but I am sure there is a good chance to convince Bernard to do so. Greetings from Germany Frank -- Frank Nobis Email: fn@Radio-do.de PGP AVAILABLE Landgrafenstr. 130 fn@Germany.EU.net 44139 Dortmund Powered by FreeBSD Fax: +49 231 7213816