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- remove most mailing list stuff, all info needed is in the handbook

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<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/support.sgml,v 1.342 2004/10/31 17:15:55 blackend Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/support.sgml,v 1.343 2004/12/29 17:30:26 blackend Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "Support">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
]>
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<a name="mailing-list"></a>
<h2>Mailing lists</h2>
<h2><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL">
Mailing lists</a></h2>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL">Mailing
lists</a> are the primary communication channels for the FreeBSD
community, and cover many topic areas. Depending on the charter
of each individual list, it may be more oriented to developers
or to FreeBSD users. Please read the charter of a mailing list
before you post to it, and respect it when you post. The complete
list of mailing list charters is <a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-SUMMARY">
here</a>.</p>
<p>Mailing lists are the primary communication channels for the FreeBSD
community, and cover many topic areas.</p>
<p>When in doubt about what list to post a question to, see <a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/">
How to get best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list</a>.</p>
<p>Before posting to any list, please learn about how to best use the
mailing lists, such as how to help avoid frequently-repeated
discussions, by reading the
<a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/article.html">Mailing
List Frequently Asked Questions</a> (FAQ) document.</p>
<p>To get an up to the minute view of the mailing lists available
or to subscribe to a mailing list, use FreeBSD.org's <a
href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo">Mailman web
interface</a>. All mailman lists are available in a digest
format and have threaded archives available. See the individual
list's web page for details.</p>
<a name="mailing-list-archives"></a>
<h3>Mailing list archives</h3>
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href="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/answers/pc-hardware-faq">pc-hardware-faq</a>
is a great reference for people building their own machines.</li>
<li>Laptop users looking for PC Card (aka PCMCIA) support under FreeBSD 2.2.X and 3.X
should see the <a
href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/">PAO</a> distribution page for
laptop support (FreeBSD 4.X and higher are provided with laptop support).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.x86.org/">Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't
Want You To Know</a> - lots of information about Intel chips.</li>
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is the free system that forms the core of Apple's
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OS X</a> system.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cs.hut.fi/~jvh/lites.html"><strong>Lites</strong></a>
<li><a href="http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/lites/html/"><strong>Lites</strong></a>
is a 4.4 BSD Lite based server and emulation library that provides
free UNIX functionality to a Mach based system.</li>