current@ and freebsd-current@

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Dec 1 16:59:41 GMT 2005


Brian Candler wrote:
> I see a number of mails cross-posted to current at freebsd.org and
> freebsd-current at freebsd.org, and so get two copies in the freebsd-current
> digest I receive.
> 
> Is there any reason to have two addresses pointing at this list? As far as I
> can see from the web, 'freebsd-current@' is the advertised address. If
> current@ is a legacy hangover, could it be killed?

I've asked postmaster@ about this, and there are mechanisms in place which are
supposed to merge the two names to avoid duplicate postings, but some messages
seem to get missed.

-- 
-Chuck


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