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• 有哪些列表可以订阅
• 如何订阅
• 网络礼仪(Netiquette)

About this Article

• Author: Zhang Huangbin (michaelbibby (at) gmail.com)

有哪些列表可以订阅

所有可订阅的邮件列表都列在了这个页面上：Mailing Lists。请选择自己感兴趣的列表。

以下是几个主要的列表及其作用：

• misc@：讨论和交流所有使用方面的问题。
• ports@：讨论所有有关于 ports tree 的问题，包括 bug 提交，新 port 提交等。
• announce@：重要通告。
• security-announce@：安全通告。
• ports-security@：ports tree 里软件的安全通告。
• www@：网站页面的更新情况。
• source-changes@: OpenBSD 源码的更新情况。不用于技术讨论。
• ports-changes@: 跟踪 ports tree 的更新情况。不用于技术讨论。

如何订阅

• 进入订阅页面：OpenBSD Mailing List Server
• 在 Search for a Mailing List 中填上你需要订阅的列表的名字，比如： misc
• 点击 Search*，会进入新页面，显示这个列表的一些信息。
• 在页面下方填上你的邮件地址以及名字，点击 Subscribe*。它会往你填的邮箱里发送一封确认邮件，请及时打开邮件。
• 点击邮件里的确认链接。确认之后就算是订阅成功了。

网络礼仪(Netiquette)

引用自： Mailing Lists 页面。

Plain text, 72 characters per line

Many subscribers and developers read their mail on text-based mailers (mail(1), emacs, Mutt) and they find HTML-formatted messages, or lines that stretch beyond 72 characters often unreadable. Most OpenBSD mailing lists strip messages of MIME content before sending them out to the rest of the list. If you don't use plain text your messages will be reformatted or, if they cannot be reformatted, summarily rejected. The only mailing list that allows attachments is the ports list, they will be removed from messages on the other mailing lists.

Do your homework before you post

If you have an installation question, make sure that you have read the relevant documents such as the INSTALL.xxx text files in the FTP installation directories, the FAQ and the relevant man pages (start with afterboot(8)), and check the mailing list archives. We want to help, but we wouldn't want to deprive you of a valuable learning experience, and no one wants to see the same question on the lists for the fifth time in a month.

Include a useful Subject line

Messages with an empty Subject will get bounced to the list manager and so they will take longer to show up. Including a relevant Subject in the message will ensure that more people actually read what you've written. Also, avoid Subject lines with excessive capitalization. "Help!" or "I can't get it to work!" are not useful subject lines. Do not change the subject line while on the same topic. YOU may know what it is regarding, the rest of us who get several hundred messages a day will have no idea.

Trim your signature

Keep the signature lines at the bottom of your mail to a reasonable length. PGP signatures, and those automatic address cards are merely annoying and are stripped out. Legal disclaimers and advisories are very annoying, and inappropriate to public mailing lists.

Stay on topic

Please keep the subject of the post relevant to users of OpenBSD.

Include important information

Don't waste everyone's time with a hopelessly incomplete question. No one other than you has the information needed to resolve your problem, it is better to provide more information than needed than one detail too little. Any question should include at least the version of OpenBSD (i.e., "3.2-stable", "3.3-current as of July 20, 2003"). Any hardware related questions should mention the platform (i.e., sparc, alpha, etc.), and provide a full dmesg(8). Hardware model numbers, unfortunately, don't indicate much about the actual content of a particular machine or accessory, and are useless to anyone who doesn't have that exact machine sitting where they can easily recognize it. The dmesg(8) tells us exactly what is IN your machine, not what stickers are on the outside.

Respect differences in opinion and philosophy

Intelligent people may look at the same set of facts and come to very different conclusions. Repeating the same points that didn't convince someone previously rarely changes their mind and irritates all the other readers.

Do not cross-post or repeat post

Posting the same message to multiple lists and/or multiple times does not increase the likelihood of getting a useful response, but is likely to irritate the people you want to help you. If you didn't get a satisfactory response the first time you posted to an appropriate list, it is usually because you provided insufficient or unclear information. Don't simply repost the same message.

简单翻译一下：

• 使用纯文本邮件，并保持单行最多 72 个字符。
• 在发送邮件之前，先做足你该做的 “homework”。提问之前请先 google 之，不要浪费他人的时间。
• 尽量在邮件的主题里把主要意思交代一下，至少让人家看到你的标题知道是哪方面的问题。
• 裁减你的签名。最好放在邮件内容的最底下，GPG 签名也挺烦人的。
• 邮件中要包含有利于解决你的问题的重要信息，比如 OB 的版本、相关的硬件平台，必要时还需要完整的 dmesg 信息等。
• 尊重别人的不同观点和原则。
• 不要 cross-post（在多个邮件列表里发同样内容的邮件）或者重复发送。