Mailing lists

There are two separate mailing lists for NEdit users, and another one for developers. Users may post to the developer mailing list to report bugs and communicate with the nedit developers. Please keep in mind that NEdit is entirely a volunteer effort. Treat the people on the list the way you expect to be treated.

The lists are:

• discuss at nedit.org: general discussion, questions and answers among nedit users and developers.
• develop at nedit.org: communication among and with nedit developers. Developers are kindly asked to also subscribe to the discuss list.
• announce at nedit.org: a low-volume mailing list for announcing new versions.

Mailing list usage policy

Out of necessity we have to impose a few general rules about using the mailing lists. By subscribing and posting to the list you are assumed to accept these. While this sounds grave, in reality the policy will not stand in the way of the interested NEdit user and/or developer.

Firstly, the NEdit developers subscribe to both discuss at nedit.org and develop at nedit.org, either of which may be used for reporting bugs. If you're not sure, or you think the report might be of interest to the general nedit user community, send the report to discuss at nedit.org. If it's something obvious and boring, like we misspelled "anemometer" in the online help, send it to develop at nedit.org. If you don't want to subscribe to these lists, please add a note to your mail about cc'ing you on responses.

To counter spam on these lists, several measures are taken. On develop non-member postings are filtered and manually transfered to a list if they are pertinent. This means that your message might be delayed for a while if you are not subscribed to the list you posted to. On discuss the amount of spam has reached such a level that all traffic from nonmembers is summarily discarded. If you have problems with this, contact discuss-owner at nedit.org. Finally, on announce posts are accepted from a few origins, and all other mail is discarded.

Since the developers either are subscribed to the discussion mailing list or have very good reasons not to be, please do not cross post.

Subscriptions

The easiest way of subscribing is to use the web interface:

• NEdit announcement list
• NEdit discussion list
• NEdit developers list

These interfaces can also be used to modify you account, or to unsubscribe. Alternatively, if you prefer to use your email client, please send mail to one of

announce-request at nedit.org
discuss-request at nedit.org
develop-request at nedit.org

subscribe [password] [digest|nodigest] [address=your@address.here]

where you can specify a password, or have one generated for you if you don't specify one. You can als indicate whether you wish to receive the list traffic in digested form or not, with nodigest being the default. Finally, you can specify an alternative address if you don't wish to subscribe the address you're sending from. Similarly, to unsubscribe, use:

unsubscribe [password] [address=your@address.here]

Do not put your commands on the subject line, since these will be ignored.