Bug 103194

Summary:	Mailings lists "aic7xxx" and "kde" don't exist
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Oliver Fromme <olli>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Remko Lodder <remko>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	olli
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Oliver Fromme 2006-09-12 16:30:18 UTC

	The FreeBSD Handbook documents the mailing lists
	"freebsd-aic7xxx" and "freebsd-kde".  However,
	it's not possible to subscribe to them.

Fix: 

If the above mentioned lists are obsolete, then
	remove them from the FreeBSD Handbook (Appendix
	C.1.1 "List Summary).  Otherwise fix the mailman
	configuration, so the -request addresses work
	properly.
How-To-Repeat: 
	Mail "subscribe" to freebsd-aic7xxx-request or to
	freebsd-kde-request.  You'll get the following
	error messages:

 <freebsd-aic7xxx-request@freebsd.org>:
    host hub.freebsd.org[216.136.204.18] said:
    550 <freebsd-aic7xxx-request@freebsd.org>: Recipient address rejected:
    User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)

 <freebsd-kde-request@freebsd.org>:
    host hub.freebsd.org[216.136.204.18] said:
    550 <freebsd-kde-request@freebsd.org>: Recipient address rejected:
    User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)

	Furthermore, when clicking on the "freebsd-kde"
	link in the FreeBSD Handbook (Appendix C.1.1),
	an error page from mailman is displayed:
	
	"We're sorry, we hit a bug!  Mailman experienced a
	very low level failure and could not even generate
	a useful traceback for you. Please report this to
	the Mailman administrator at this site."

Comment 1 Mark Linimon 2006-09-12 19:06:53 UTC

I'd suggest leaving aic7xxx; whenever you get email that's crossposted
to it you have a 100% guarantee of a spam.  (The spammers just walk the
list in alpha order).

Comment 2 olli 2006-09-13 11:09:12 UTC

Mark Linimon wrote:
 > I'd suggest leaving aic7xxx; whenever you get email that's crossposted
 > to it you have a 100% guarantee of a spam.  (The spammers just walk the
 > list in alpha order).

That would be fine with me.  But in that case, a note
should be added to that list in the handbook, indicating
that the address is only a spamtrap, but the list doesn't
really exist.

Best regards
   Oliver

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Comment 3 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2006-10-13 09:20:12 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->remko

I will work on this (found both the reasons why the mail is being 
rejected).

Comment 4 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2006-10-13 09:38:18 UTC

remko       2006-10-13 08:38:04 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml mailing-lists.ent 
  Log:
  Correct the URL to the KDE mailinglist (which is being hosted on an
  external page).
  
  PR:             doc/103194
  Reported by:    Oliver Fromme <olli at secnetix at de>
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.52      +1 -1      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent
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Comment 5 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2006-10-13 09:39:24 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I corrected the URL to the KDE mailinglist, which is being 
hosted somewhere else (hence subscription does not go to 
the FreeBSD.org domain but to the external domain) and 
for the aic7xxx mailinglist : 
You need to subscribe to aic7xxx-request@FreeBSD.org and not to freebsd-aic7xxx-request@FreeBSd.org 

This should resolve the PR, closing it.