4. Mailing Lists and Newsgroups

• 4.1 Mailing Lists
• 4.2 Newsgroups

4.1 Mailing Lists (top)

The port-mac68k mailing list is maintained by the majordomo mail server at NetBSD.org.

If you would like to subscribe to this mailing list, send e-mail to majordomo@NetBSD.org with any subject and the message:

	subscribe port-mac68k

The majordomo mail server can do many other things such as unsubscribe, inform you which mailing lists you are subscribed to, and give you detailed help on what functions it can perform. For further help about using majordomo, send e-mail to majordomo@NetBSD.org with any subject and the message:

	help

If the volume of mail produced by the port-mac68k mailing list bothers you and you would prefer to get the list in digest format, you're in luck. Mark Routbort (routbort@neuro.duke.edu) currently has a digest server set up on his machine. Here is what Mark has to say about it:

I am announcing the availability of a new mailing-list for a digest form of
port-mac68k, having seen a number of recent requests for such a format (and
feeling a bit deluged by the volume of mail on the port-mac68k list myself).

This digest will be sent out daily, and is simply a mirror of the regular
port-mac68k list, except that it will be sorted by subject and dates
(major/minor), have a topics list, and strip out a lot of mail header
information - changes which will hopefully improve readability somewhat.

To subscribe, send mail to "majordomo@routbort.neuro.duke.edu"
with the text "subscribe port-mac68k-digest" in the body of the message.

mailto:majordomo@routbort.neuro.duke.edu

(As usual, any traffic to the mailing list should be sent to
port-mac68k@NetBSD.org, mail sent to port-mac68k@routbort.neuro.duke.edu
will just be forwarded there.)

Past volumes (as of March 15th, 1997) will be available for anonymous ftp at:

ftp://routbort.neuro.duke.edu/pub/port-mac68k-digest

The NetBSD/mac68k mailing list (port-mac68k) used to be two separate mailing lists called macbsd-general and macbsd-development. Both the macbsd-general and macbsd-development mailing lists are archived on several sites. If you are new to the mailing lists, we suggest that you browse over the archives for the last month or two before asking questions on a list, such as, "I have a <insert machine name here>. Will NetBSD/mac68k work on this machine?" Here is the location of the mailing list archives on the NetBSD Project's ftp server:

• ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/macbsd-general
• ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/macbsd-development
• ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/port-mac68k

Most NetBSD mirrors also carry the mailing list archives. For a complete list, check out the NetBSD Project's Obtaining NetBSD page.

4.2 Newsgroups (top)

Two newsgroups of interest are:

• comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
• comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc

However, most of the useful information about NetBSD/mac68k is obtained through the mailing lists.

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