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Mailing lists and newsgroups

Mailing lists about FreeS/WAN

The project mailing lists

The Linux FreeS/WAN project has several email lists for user support, bug reports and software development discussions.

We had a single list on clinet.fi for several years (Thanks, folks!), then one list on freeswan.org, but now we've split into several lists:

users
bugs
design
announce
briefs
To subscribe to any of these, you can:

Archives of these lists are available via the web interface.

List policies

US citizens or residents are asked not to post code to the lists, not even one-line bug fixes. The project cannot accept code which might entangle it in US export restrictions.

Non-subscribers can post to some of these lists. This is necessary; someone working on a gateway install who encounters a problem may not have access to a subscribed account.

Some spam turns up on these lists from time to time. For discussion of why we do not attempt to filter it, see the FAQ. Please do not clutter the lists with complaints about this.

Archives of the lists

Searchable archives of the old single list have existed for some time. At time of writing, it is not yet clear how they will change for the new multi-list structure.

Note that these use different search engines. Try both.

Archives of the new lists are available via the web interface.

Indexes of mailing lists

PAML is the standard reference for Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists. When we last checked, it had over 7500 lists on an amazing variety of topics. It also has FAQ information and a search engine.

There is an index of Linux mailing lists available.

A list of computer security mailing lists, with descriptions.

Lists for related software and topics

Most links in this section point to subscription addresses for the various lists. Send the one-line message "subscribe list_name " to subscribe to any of them.

Linux mailing lists

Lists for IETF working groups

Each IETF working group has an associated mailing list where much of the work takes place.

Other mailing lists

Usenet newsgroups


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