From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Oct 5 11:52:16 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 D94EF37B404; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD58043E4A; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 17xu24-0000Y6-00; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 19:52:08 +0100 Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:52:08 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Bill Fumerola , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostmaster, the ftp contact? Message-ID: <20021005185208.GA1839@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Giorgos Keramidas , Bill Fumerola , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20021005003701.GE80284@elvis.mu.org> <20021005105129.GC99605@submonkey.net> <20021005140539.GG751@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021005140539.GG751@hades.hell.gr> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:05:39PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-10-05 11:51, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:37:02PM -0700, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > > can someone please come up with a better way to correct this? > > > > > > diff -u -r1.242 chapter.sgml > > > --- mirrors/chapter.sgml 30 Sep 2002 14:31:08 -0000 1.242 > > > +++ mirrors/chapter.sgml 1 Oct 2002 17:49:31 -0000 > > > @@ -1042,8 +1042,7 @@ > > > USA > > > > > > > > > - In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster > > > - hostmaster@FreeBSD.org for this domain. > > > + In case of problems, please contact the &a.doc;. > > > > I think that's making the situation worse. > > Being responsible for the DNS, hostmaster@FreeBSD.org should have a much > > better idea of which machine is hanging at the end of a CNAME and who's > > responsible for it than we will. > > > > Pointing this at questions@ makes the same amount of sense as using doc@. > > Hmmm, we don't want people to flood admins at freebsd.org with > thousands of email messages asking things like ``What does `host not > found mean?'.'' Perhaps point users to -questions and then if their > questions cannot be answered because they require administrative > information that is not readily available to everyone (which should be > a rare case), point them to admins? Agreed. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message