Bug 40648

Summary: Confusing instructions for subscribing to mailing lists
Product: Documentation Reporter: dschultz <dschultz>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description dschultz 2002-07-16 13:00:13 UTC 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html

The first thing it says under the ``How to Subscribe'' heading is how
to send mail to the lists.  Many unalert readers seem to look at the
heading, then at the example address <listname@FreeBSD.ORG> and send
off a subscribe request to the wrong place.  This is annoying for
people who are already subscribed, and a big turn-off for potential
subscribers, whose requests are silently ignored.

A partial solution to this problem is to make the first thing under
``How to Subscribe'' say---you guessed it---how to subscribe.
Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-16 13:15:18 UTC 
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From-To: open->closed

Excellent point!  Thanks for taking the time to do the SGML part of 
this and submitting it :)
Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-16 13:15:18 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida