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Jonne Haß edited this page Jun 15, 2013 · 3 revisions

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New link: http://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/How_We_Communicate#Mailing_Lists

A [mailing list][mailing-list] is basically a forum where you can use your email address to create and reply on topics.

You can find our list's web interfaces on Google Groups. If you have a Google Account, you can just go there and subscribe and post from your browser, or simply browse the archives.

  • [Diaspora-dev][d-dev]
    This is where all the development-related topics are discussed. Bigger code-changes affecting all Pod-Administrators (and where some action is required) will also be announced here.
  • [Diaspora-discuss][d-discuss]
    Here you can talk about and ask for pretty much anything involving Diaspora*, including conceptual discussions about feature requests

Many people might not want to register with Google just to use a mailing list, so here is how to do it like it's 1999. [mailing-list]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailing_list [d-dev]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/diaspora-dev [d-discuss]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/diaspora-discuss

Subscribe (join) a mailing list

You need to "subscribe" to a mailing list in order to be able to reply on topics. If you subscribe on a mailing list, you always get a mail when a new topic or reply on a topic was created, so it'd be a good idea to set some filters or use a separate email address.

To subscribe to the "diaspora-discuss" mailing list, send a mail with whatever content to diaspora-discuss+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You'll get a mail from Google Groups on which you have to reply in order to verify your subscription.

Create new topics/reply to topics

  • To create a new topic in "diaspora-discuss", send a mail to diaspora-discuss@googlegroups.com, subject as topic title, content as topic's first post's content.
  • To reply to a topic, reply to one of those mail-notifications you get when you are subscribed to the mailing list. Be sure to "reply to list" and not to the sender.
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