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20.1.1. List summary

General lists: The following are general lists that anyone is free to join:

List                     Purpose
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freebsd-announce         Important events / milestones
freebsd-bugs             Bug reports
freebsd-chat             Non technical items related to the community
freebsd-current          Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
freebsd-isp              Issues for ISP's using FreeBSD
freebsd-policy           Policy issues and suggestions
freebsd-questions        User questions

Technical lists: The following are the technical lists. You should read the charter carefully before joining them, and you should keep your e-mail within the scope of the guidelines.

List                     Purpose
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freebsd-doc              Documentation project
freebsd-fs               Filesystems
freebsd-hackers          General Technical discussions
freebsd-hardware         General discussion of FreeBSD hardware
freebsd-multimedia       Multimedia discussions
freebsd-platforms        Porting to Non-Intel platforms
freebsd-ports            Discussion of "ports"
freebsd-security         Security issues
freebsd-scsi             SCSI subsystem

Limited lists: The following are limited lists that you will need approval to join. Even though access to these lists is controled, anyone is free to send suggestions and comments to them. It is a good idea establish a presence in the technical lists before asking to join one of these limited lists.

List                     Purpose
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freebsd-admin            Administrative issues
freebsd-arch             Architecture and design discussions
freebsd-core             FreeBSD core team
freebsd-install          Installation development
freebsd-user-groups      User group coordination

CVS lists: The following lists are for people seeing the log messages for source changes in specific areas:

List name       Source area          Area Description (source for)
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cvs-CVSROOT     /usr/src/[A-Z]*      Top level /usr/src file changes
cvs-all         /usr/src             All changes to the tree (superset)
cvs-bin         /usr/src/bin         System binaries
cvs-etc         /usr/src/etc         System files
cvs-games       /usr/src/games       Games
cvs-gnu         /usr/src/gnu         GPL'd utilities
cvs-include     /usr/src/include     Include files
cvs-kerberosIV  /usr/src/kerberosIV  Kerberos encryption code
cvs-lib         /usr/src/lib         System libraries
cvs-libexec     /usr/src/libexec     System binaries
cvs-ports       /usr/ports           Ported software
cvs-sbin        /usr/src/sbin        System binaries
cvs-share       /usr/src/share       System shared files
cvs-sys         /usr/src/sys         Kernel
cvs-usrbin      /usr/src/usr.bin     Use binaries
cvs-usrsbin     /usr/src/usr.sbin    System binaries


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