The first thing under the "How to Subscribe" header should be the

subscription instructions.  Move the intructionis for posting a little
further down and explicitly mention that subscriptions/unsubscriptions
should be posted to majordomo--not the lists.

PR:		docs/40648
Submitted by:	David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
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Giorgos Keramidas 2002-07-16 12:15:12 +00:00
parent 78b2ea4bea
commit b65b9e28be
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=13640

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@ -548,12 +548,6 @@
<sect2 id="eresources-subscribe">
<title>How to Subscribe</title>
<para>All mailing lists live on <hostid
role="fqdn">FreeBSD.org</hostid>, so to post to a given list you
simply mail to
&lt;<replaceable>listname</replaceable>@FreeBSD.org&gt;. It will then
be redistributed to mailing list members world-wide.</para>
<para>To subscribe to a list, send mail to &a.majordomo; and include
<programlisting>subscribe &lt;listname&gt; [&lt;optional address&gt;]</programlisting>
@ -565,6 +559,12 @@
subscribe freebsd-announce
^D</screen>
<para>To actually post to a given list you simply send mail to
&lt;<replaceable>listname</replaceable>@FreeBSD.org&gt;. It will then
be redistributed to mailing list members world-wide.
<emphasis>Please note</emphasis> that subscription requests go to
&a.majordomo;, not the lists themselves.</para>
<para>If you want to subscribe yourself under a different name, or
submit a subscription request for a local mailing list (this is more
efficient if you have several interested parties at one site, and