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