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<sect1>
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<title id="subscribe">How to subscribe to FreeBSD-questions</title>
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<para>FreeBSD-questions is a mailing list, so you need mail access. Send
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a mail message to &a.majordomo; with the single line:</para>
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<para>FreeBSD-questions is a mailing list, so you need mail access. Point
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your WWW browser to <ulink url="">FreeBSD-question Info Page</ulink>.
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In section titled <quote>Subscribing to freebsd-questions</quote> fill
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<quote>Your email address</quote> field, and optionally other fields.
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</para>
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<literallayout class="monospaced">subscribe FreeBSD-questions</literallayout>
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<para><application>majordomo</application> is an automatic program which
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maintains the mailing list, so you do not need a subject line. If your
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mailer complains, however, you can put anything you like in the subject
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line.</para>
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<para>When you get the reply from <application>majordomo</application>
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telling you the details of the list, <emphasis>please save
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it</emphasis>. If you ever should want to leave the list, you will need
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the information there. See the next section for more details.</para>
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<note>
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<para>The password fields in subscription form provides only mild
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security, but should prevent others from messing with your
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subscription. <emphasis>Do not use a valuable password</emphasis> as
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it will occasionally be emailed back to you in cleartext.</para>
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</note>
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<para>When you get confirmation message from
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<application>mailman</application> follow included instructions
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to complete subscription.</para>
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<para>And finally when you get the <quote>Welcome</quote> message from
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<application>mailman</application> telling you the details of the list
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and subscription area password, <emphasis>please save it</emphasis>.
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If you ever should want to leave the list, you will need the information
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there. See the next section for more details.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title id="unsubscribe">How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions</title>
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<para>When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message
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from <email>Majordomo@FreeBSD.org</email>. In this message, amongst
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from <application>mailman</application>. In this message, amongst
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other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here is a typical
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message:</para>
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<literallayout class="monospaced">Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list!
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<literallayout class="monospaced">Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list!
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If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send
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mail to "Majordomo@FreeBSD.org" with the following command in the body
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of your email message:
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To post to this list, send your email to:
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unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to,
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in case you don't already have it:
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General information about the mailing list is at:
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FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions
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This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD.
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You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless
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you consider the question to be pretty technical.</literallayout>
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http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
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<para>Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests:
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you do not need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the
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one which you specified when you subscribed.</para>
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If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to
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or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your
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subscription page at:
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http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/grog%40lemsi.de
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<para>If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you are not on
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the list, this may mean one of two things:</para>
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You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to:
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That is
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where keeping the original message from <literal>majordomo</literal>
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comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail
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ID as <literal>grog@lemis.de</literal>. Since then, I have changed
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it to <literal>grog@lemis.com</literal>. If I were to try to remove
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<literal>grog@lemis.com</literal> from the list, it would fail: I
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would have to specify the name with which I joined.</para>
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</listitem>
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freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org
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<listitem>
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<para>You are subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
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<literal>FreeBSD-questions</literal>. If that is the case, you will
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have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that
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one. If you are not sure which one it might be, check the headers of
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the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there is a
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clue there.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the
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quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions.
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<para>If you have done all this, and you still can not figure out what is going
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on, send a message to <email>Postmaster@FreeBSD.org</email>, and he will
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You must know your password to change your options (including changing
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the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. It is:
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12345
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Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list
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passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you
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prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to
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unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on
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your options page that will email your current password to you.</literallayout>
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<para>Using URL specified in your <quote>Welcome</quote> message you
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may visit <quote>Account management page</quote> and request
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to <quote>Unsubscribe</quote> you from FreeBSD-questions mailing
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list.</para>
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<para>When you get confirmation message from
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<application>mailman</application> follow included instructions
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to finish unscubscribing.</para>
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<para>If you have done this, and you still can not figure out what
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is going on, send a message to
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<email>freebsd-questions-request@FreeBSD.org</email>, and he will
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sort things out for you. <emphasis>Do not</emphasis> send a message to
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FreeBSD-questions: they can not help you.</para>
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</sect1>
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