Mailing Lists

---

Another way to get community feedback on your various questions and to learn the concerns of fellow Fedora users is via mailing lists. Postings are received and sent by email. You do not have to access a Web page in order to use this sort of service (except, in some cases, to sign up for the list). There are many such lists out there, so you might want to do an Internet search for “Fedora mailing lists.” Yahoo Groups also has a number of Linux-, Fedora-, and Red Hat–specific lists available that you might want to check out. You can search through the various Yahoo Groups by going to http://groups.yahoo.com.

If you like, you can also give the “official” Fedora list a try by having a look through the list’s archives, which can be accessed at www.redhat.com/mailman/ listinfo/fedora-list. If the level of things seems to be in sync with your pace and understanding, you can sign up for the list at the same URL.

Note 

You may find that some people on mailing lists, especially those on the Fedora list, are rather fussy about “top posting.” Top posting means replying to messages by adding your comments to the top of the previous poster’s comments. The proper netiquette on this list is to “bottom post,” which means that you reply to a previous poster’s comments after the original comment. You should also remove any unnecessary text from your reply, such as signatures from the list, and so on. Take a look at the example in Figure B-1 to see what I mean.

Figure B-1: Example of bottom posting

---