Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed
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| Mailing lists are interactive or digest-form electronic discussions about nearly any topic. To use a mailing list, you must generally send an email request to be subscribed to the list, and then verify the subscription with a return message from the master list mailer. After subscribing to an interactive form of list, each message sent to the list will appear in your email inbox. However, many lists provide a digest form of subscription in which a single- or half-day's traffic is condensed in a single message. The digest form is generally preferred unless you have set up electronic mail filtering (Chapter 28 also discusses the use of mailing lists in Fedora Core). The main Fedora Project mailing lists are detailed here, but there are quite a few Linux-related lists. Red Hat's offerings are also provided here. You can search for nearly all online mailing lists by using a typical mailing list search web page, such as the one at http://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_q.html.
Fedora Project Mailing Lists
The Fedora Project is still in its infancy at the time of this writing. You will find many other knowledgeable users with answers to your questions by participating in one of Fedora's mailing lists. The lists are focused on using, testing, and developing and participating in Fedora Core's development:
Red Hat Mailing Lists
Red Hat provides a comprehensive archive and mailing list management web page at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/. You can use this page to subscribe to one of more than 40 mailing lists related to Red Hat Linux. Some of the more pertinent lists are
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