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This is the documentation for the [https://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/ Mozilla Discussion Forums | This is the documentation for the [https://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/ Mozilla Discussion Forums]. | ||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
Mozilla has some 200 Discussion Forums that exist as e-mail lists as well as newsgroups as well as being synced on Google Groups. This synchronization is generally seamless, and users are free to choose their preferred method to join the discussion, over a variety of network protocols and clients. Mozilla tries to keep discussions on these public Discussion Forums, to encourage participation in the process. | Mozilla has some 200 Discussion Forums that exist as e-mail lists on https://lists.mozilla.org/ as well as newsgroups as well as being synced on Google Groups. This synchronization is generally seamless, and users are free to choose their preferred method to join the discussion, over a variety of network protocols and clients. Mozilla tries to keep discussions on these public Discussion Forums, to encourage participation in the process. | ||
===How do I subscribe to a discussion forum?=== | ===How do I subscribe to a discussion forum?=== | ||
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If you send a message with a valid "From:" address and, after two hours, you do not see it posted and did not get a reply back (saying, for example, your message was held for moderation), and you have not been told you are on a blacklist, please contact the list owner (see above). Give him the exact date and time of a message you sent, the mechanism you used (mail/news/Google Groups) and the name of the discussion forum you sent it to. If the list owner can't immediately locate it (it's not sitting in the moderation queue) the list owner (or the user, if the list owner is unresponsive) should [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.itrequest file an IT Request ticket] (pick the "any other request" option) and make sure to include all of the above information. | If you send a message with a valid "From:" address and, after two hours, you do not see it posted and did not get a reply back (saying, for example, your message was held for moderation), and you have not been told you are on a blacklist, please contact the list owner (see above). Give him the exact date and time of a message you sent, the mechanism you used (mail/news/Google Groups) and the name of the discussion forum you sent it to. If the list owner can't immediately locate it (it's not sitting in the moderation queue) the list owner (or the user, if the list owner is unresponsive) should [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.itrequest file an IT Request ticket] (pick the "any other request" option) and make sure to include all of the above information. | ||
==mail.mozilla.org== | |||
A very few mailing lists are also maintained on https://mail.mozilla.org/. These mailing lists are not necessarily mirrored to Google Groups or newsgroups. Some mailing lists are set up this way to allow for the possibility of moderating messages before they get sent out, which is not possible on an NNTP newsgroup. | |||
==Forum Moderation== | ==Forum Moderation== | ||
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===Should I mirror news.mozilla.org?=== | ===Should I mirror news.mozilla.org?=== | ||
Probably not. If you do, you will confuse the users of your mirror when they try to post questions and nobody using the official servers can see them. | Probably not. If you do, you will confuse the users of your mirror when they try to post questions and nobody using the official servers can see them. | ||
==External discussion lists== | |||
There are also some additional mailing lists that are hosted externally to Mozilla. For completeness, they are: | |||
* LGBTQ and Allies mailing list [http://groups.google.com/group/homozilla Homozilla] | |||
* Women and Mozilla [http://lists.womoz.org/mailman/listinfo/womoz WoMoz] | |||