X Newsgroups and Mailing Lists

Newsgroups

The following newsgroups exist for the discussion of issues related to the X Window System:

comp.windows.x

This newsgroup is gatewayed to the xpert mailing list.

comp.windows.x.announce

This group is moderated by the staff of X Consortium, Inc.

Traffic is limited to major X announcements, such as the following:: Public Review of a proposed X Consortium standard; Adoption of a new X Consortium standard; A new release from the X Consortium; Patches from the X Consortium; Upcoming public X conferences, exhibitions, or meetings; A new release of a major public toolkit or application that is freely available and redistributable; Media distribution of software that is otherwise available via anonymous ftp provided the charge is reasonable; A major patch or modification to X software

The moderator will reject messages on these subjects:: Advertisements for commercial products or services; Announcement for minor patches or modifications to software; Questions about anything; Crippled or time-bombed versions of commercial software

There is a two-way gateway between comp.windows.x.announce and the mailing list xannounce@x.org. Messages appearing here will also appear on the mailing list xpert@x.org (but NOT on the newsgroup comp.windows.x).

It is intended that traffic will be low enough that everyone with any interest in X will subscribe.

Moderator: X Consortium staff
Submission: xannounce@x.org

comp.windows.x.apps

comp.windows.x.intrinsics

comp.windows.x.motif

comp.windows.x.pex

Mailing Lists

The following public mailing lists are maintained by the X Consortium for the discussion of issues related the the X Window System. All are hosted @x.org. To subscribe to one of these mailing lists, send mail to the request address specified by adding -request to the name of the desired list. For example, to add yourself to the xpert mailing list:

	To: xpert-request@x.org
	Subject: (none needed)

	subscribe

To unsubscribe:

	To: xpert-request@x.org
	Subject: (none needed)

	unsubscribe

To add an address to a specific list, or to add a specific user, you can specify options to the subscribe or unsubscribe command. This example adds pat@mumble.widget.com to the xpert mailing list:

	To: xpert-request@x.org
	Subject: (none needed)

	subscribe xpert pat@mumble.widget.com

List of Lists

xannounce

This is a moderated mailing list for announcing releases of non-commercial X related software, and other issue concerning the X Window System.

This mailing list is gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.windows.x.announce.

Subscription requests should be sent to xannounce-request@x.org.

The policy for this list is given in the description of the newsgroup comp.windows.x.announce, above.

xpert

This list is gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.windows.x.

Subscription requests should be sent to xpert-request@x.org.

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