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1 GNU Project Electronic Mailing Lists and gnUSENET Newsgroups
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2 Last Updated 2004-10-19
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4 Please report improvements to: gnu@gnu.org
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6 * Mailing list archives
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8 The GNU mailing lists are archived at http://lists.gnu.org.
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10 * Some GNU mailing lists are also distributed as USENET news groups
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12 Certain GNU mailing lists are gated both ways with the gnu.all
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13 newsgroups at uunet. You can tell which they are, because the names
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14 correspond. For instance, bug-gnu-emacs corresponds to gnu.emacs.bug;
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15 info-gnu-emacs, to gnu.emacs.announce; help-gnu-emacs, to
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16 gnu.emacs.help; gnu-emacs-sources, to gnu.emacs.sources. Replacing
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17 `emacs' with some other program in those four examples shows you
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18 the whole pattern.
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20 If you don't know if your site is on USENET, ask your system
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21 administrator. If you are a USENET site and don't get the gnu.all
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22 newsgroups, please ask your USENET administrator to get them. If he has
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23 your feeds ask their feeds, you should win. And everyone else wins:
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24 newsgroups make better use of the limited bandwidth of the computer
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25 networks and your home machine than mailing list traffic; and staying
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26 off the mailing lists make better use of the people who maintain the
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27 lists and the machines that the GNU people working with rms use (i.e. we
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28 have more time to produce code!!). Thanx.
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30 * Getting the mailing lists directly
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32 If several users at your site or local network want to read a list and
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33 you aren't a USENET site, Project GNU would prefer that you would set up
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34 one address that redistributes locally. This reduces overhead on our
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35 people and machines, your gateway machine, and the network(s) used to
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36 transport the mail from us to you.
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38 * How to subscribe to and report bugs in mailing lists
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40 Send requests to be added or removed, to help-gnu-emacs-request (or
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41 info-gnu-request, bug-gdb-request, etc.), NOT to info-gnu-emacs (or
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42 info-gnu, etc.). Most <LIST_NAME>-request addresses are now handled
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43 automagically by GNU Mailman.
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45 If you need to report problems to a human, send mail to gnu@gnu.org
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46 explaining the problem.
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48 Many of the GNU mailing lists are very large and are received by many
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49 people. Most are unmoderated, so please don't send them anything that
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50 is not seriously important to all their readers.
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52 If a message you mail to a list is returned from a MAILER-DAEMON (often
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53 with the line:
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54 ----- Transcript of session follows -----
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55 don't resend the message to the list. All this return means is that
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56 your original message failed to reach a few addresses on the list. Such
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57 messages are NEVER a reason to resend a piece of mail a 2nd time. This
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58 just bothers all (less the few delivery failures (which will probably
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59 just fail again!)) of the readers of the list with a message they have
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60 already seen. It also wastes computer and network resources.
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62 It is appropriate to send these to the -request address for a list, and
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63 ask them to check the problem out.
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65 * Send Specific Requests for Information to: gnu@gnu.org
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67 Specific requests for information about obtaining GNU software, or GNU
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68 activities in Cambridge and elsewhere can be directed to:
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69 gnu@gnu.org
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71 * General Information about all lists
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73 Please keep each message under 25,000 characters. Some mailers bounce
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74 messages that are longer than this. If your message is long, it is
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75 generally better to send a message offering to make the large file
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76 available to only those people who want it (e.g. mailing it to people
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77 who ask, or putting it up for FTP). In the case of gnu.emacs.sources,
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78 somewhat larger postings (up to 10 parts of no more than 25,000
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79 characters each) are acceptable (assuming they are likely to be of
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80 interest to a reasonable number of people); if it is larger than that,
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81 put it in a web page and announce its URL. Good bug reports are short.
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82 See section '* General Information about bug-* lists and ...' for
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83 further details.
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85 Most of the time, when you reply to a message sent to a list, the reply
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86 should not go to the list. But most mail reading programs supply, by
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87 default, all the recipients of the original as recipients of the reply.
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88 Make a point of deleting the list address from the header when it does
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89 not belong. This prevents bothering all readers of a list, and reduces
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90 network congestion.
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92 The GNU mailing lists and newsgroups, like the GNU project itself, exist
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93 to promote the freedom to share software. So don't use these lists to
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94 promote or recommend non-free software or documentation, like
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95 proprietary books on GNU software. (Using them to post ordering
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96 information is the ultimate faux pas.) If there is no free program to
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97 do a certain task, then somebody should write one! Similarly, free
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98 documentation that is inadequate should be improved--a way in which
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99 non-programmers can make a valuable contribution. See also the article
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100 at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html>.
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102 * General Information about info-* lists
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104 These lists and their newsgroups are meant for important announcements.
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105 Since the GNU project uses software development as a means for social
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106 change, the announcements may be technical or political.
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108 Most GNU projects info-* lists (and their corresponding gnu.*.announce
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109 newsgroups) are moderated to keep their content significant and
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110 relevant. If you have a bug to report, send it to the bug-* list. If
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111 you need help on something else and the help-* list exists, ask it.
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113 See section '* General Information about all lists'.
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115 * General Information about help-* lists
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117 These lists (and their newsgroups) exist for anyone to ask questions
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118 about the GNU software that the list deals with. The lists are read by
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119 people who are willing to take the time to help other users.
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121 When you answer the questions that people ask on the help-* lists, keep
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122 in mind that you shouldn't answer by promoting a proprietary program as
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123 a solution. The only real solutions are the ones all the readers can
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124 share.
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126 If a program crashes, or if you build it following the standard
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127 procedure on a system on which it is supposed to work and it does not
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128 work at all, or if an command does not behave as it is documented to
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129 behave, this is a bug. Don't send bug reports to a help-* list; mail
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130 them to the bug-* list instead.
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132 See section '* General Information about all lists'.
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134 * General Information about bug-* lists and reporting program bugs
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136 If you think something is a bug in a program, it might be one; or, it
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137 might be a misunderstanding or even a feature. Before beginning to
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138 report bugs, please read the section ``Reporting Emacs Bugs'' toward the
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139 end of the GNU Emacs reference manual (or node Emacs/Bugs in Emacs's
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140 built-in Info system) for a discussion of how and when to send in bug
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141 reports. For GNU programs other than GNU Emacs, also consult their
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142 documentation for their bug reporting procedures. Always include the
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143 version number of the GNU program, as well as the operating system and
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144 machine the program was ran on (if the program doesn't have a version
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145 number, send the date of the latest entry in the file ChangeLog). For
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146 GNU Emacs bugs, type "M-x emacs-version". A debugger backtrace of any
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147 core dump can also be useful. Be careful to separate out hypothesis
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148 from fact! For bugs in GNU Emacs lisp, set variable debug-on-error to
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149 t, and re-enter the command(s) that cause the error message; Emacs will
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150 pop up a debug buffer if something is wrong; please include a copy of
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151 the buffer in your bug report. Please also try to make your bug report
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152 as short as possible; distill the problem to as few lines of code and/or
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153 input as possible. GNU maintainers give priority to the shortest, high
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154 quality bug reports.
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156 Please don't send in a patch without a test case to illustrate the
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157 problem the patch is supposed to fix. Sometimes the patches aren't
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246 Guile source code to: guile-sources@gnu.org
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267 requested in bug-guile, please mail it to the requester. Do NOT
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268 repost it. If you also want something that is requested, send mail to
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269 the requester asking him to forward it to you. This kind of traffic is
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