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Introduction All our lists are public.They are not private message centers. Messages posted to them are carried by, among others, Gmane and Google. They are public. Therefore, consider carefully what you say: thousands if not millions may read your words and they won't just read them today but also decades from now. Anyone can post to our most popular lists, but if you are not already subscribed, your message will be moderated. In this way, we limit the amount of spam entering the message lists. Of the lists to which you might consider subscribing, the most useful are the "discuss," "users," and "announce." Both the discuss and users lists accept posts; the announce list does not. Its function is to disseminate important information that is of interest to the general community. Individual projects have their own announce and discuss lists, too. As a rule, honor the nature of the list. If you want to post a message without it being moderated, please subscribe to the relevant mailing list. To subscribe to any list, all you have to do is click on the "Normal" or "Digest" links and send on the empty email message that will be automatically generated and addressed. This message is just to let the friendly computer know of your intentions; you will immediately, upon sending this first note, receive a confirmation notice. Follow the instructions and send it back. Thus, to subscribe to the general discuss list, you just send mail to discuss-subscribe@openoffice.org and then follow the instructions. OpenOffice.org Member Responsibilities: Mail Lists
Mailing List Guidelines Please familiarize yourself with the Mailing List Guidelines, if you have not already. For those who prefer to use newsgroups rather than e-mail mailing lists, there are the Gmane newsgroups. For more information on Gmane, contact Gmane. To correspond via newsgroups, you can use open-source command-line clients, Mozilla, or many other clients. The Gmane server address is:
Then enter the list you wish to subscribe to; see below for the ones available or scan Gmane's list, which is always growing. Many specific projects also use Gmane. For instance, ES, Groupware are two projects that use Gmane. If you want your project lists to use Gmane, contact Gmane directly and set it up. It's easy. Process E-mails that are sent by subscribers to the mailing lists are automatically forwarded to the relevant Newsgroup. Conversely, posts to a Newsgroup are forwarded to the appropriate mailing list. That is, the operation of Gmane is bidirectional. It is not necessary to be subscribed to a mailing list to be able to post to a Newsgroup. The Gmane system uses its own authorization process. Thus, to post to a Newsgroup, do the following:
Gmane newsgroups are listed next to the relevant mail lists. If a newsgroup is not listed and exists, please contact us.
Project Mailing Lists: All our lists are public Please visit your project's homepage to see what lists are available for the project you're interested in. It is possible that your project's list may have a gmane equivalent. You can search for it in the on the gmane site. If it is not there, you can always subscribe it. Mailing List Problems? If you're having problems with any of the lists, please contact the list owner rather than posting your problem to the whole list. Addresses for list owners take the form listname-owner@openoffice.org, so for example the discuss list owner address would be discuss-owner@openoffice.org By far the most common mailing list problem is attempting to unsubscribe from an address that is not subscribed. If you need to unsubscribe a specific address, say "mary@host.domain", send a blank email to discuss-unsubscribe-mary=host.domain@openoffice.org. If none of this helps, and you still have questions, please contact us. $Revision: 1.140 $ |
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