General Information

The LinuxSA Mailing Lists are the main method of communication between LinuxSA members (note that the terms "members" is used loosely; you can consider yourself a member if you're subscribed to one of the mailing lists).

There are three mailing lists:

• linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au - for general discussion on any topic that is at least vaguely Linux-related or likely to be of interest to LinuxSA members

• linuxsa-talk@linuxsa.org.au - for any other general non-Linux-related chit-chat

• linuxsa-announce@linuxsa.org.au - a low-volume non-discussion list for announcements that are likely to be of interest to Linux users in Adelaide/South Australia.

Subscribing and Unsubscribing

To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your subscription options, you can use the Mailman web interface:

• linuxsa
• linuxsa-talk
• linuxsa-announce

• You need to subscribe to (and unsubscribe from!) linuxsa and linuxsa-talk separately.

• Posts to linuxsa-announce are automatically copied to linuxsa so you do not need to subscribe to both of them.

Important Notes

• Postings to the mailing lists are only accepted from your subscribed address. This is to reduce the likelyhood of spam making it on to the list. If you have more than one email address, you can subscribe all of your addresses separately, and then turn off mail delivery for all but one of them.

• The main discussion list (linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au) is for anything vaguely Linux-related. That includes (but is not limited to):

  • Meeting announcements
  • Discussion about Linux and software that runs on Linux
  • Requests for help with Linux
  • Non-commercial/private wanted to buy/sell (if it can run Linux)
  • Employment opportunities (if they're to do with Linux)
  • Anything else to do with Linux
  • All of the above in relation to other Linux-like operating systems (such as BSD, Mac OS-X) and other Open Source software
  • Other more-general-interest less-controversial things that are likely to be of particular interest to LinuxSA members (eg. computer networking)

• The talk list (linuxsa-talk@linuxsa.org.au) is for anything else (within reason) that has nothing to do with Linux.

• The acceptable content on the linuxsa and linuxsa-talk lists is defined to be mutually exclusive. That is, if a message is on-topic in one list, it is off-topic in the other. In other words: do not post the same message to both lists.

• If you are posting a question, please read Eric Raymond's How To Ask Questions The Smart Way first.

• We require you to send posts in plain text format. For information on making your email client send in plain text please see this document. HTML posts may be rejected, ignored, or worse, and are usually not well accepted.

• Unsolicited commercial postings (on- or off-topic) are not permitted in general. Some exceptions apply -- please check with linuxsa-owner@linuxsa.org.au to get permission.

Posting

To post to one of the LinuxSA mailing lists, email your message to either linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au or linuxsa-talk@linuxsa.org.au as appropriate (but read the important notes above before posting).

Mailing list archives

• linuxsa
• linuxsa-talk
• linuxsa-announce

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