Discussion Forums/FAQ

• This is a draft document, per bug 332799*

Introduction

Mozilla Discussion Forums exist as mailing lists as well as newsgroups. NNTP is a different beast than straight email, and over the years questions come up on how we use it at Mozilla. Below is the aggregate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why don't you allow binary Attachments?

Answer: The are dangerous.

Q: What is with the hierarchy? (mozilla.dev.* versus mozilla.community.* )

Answer: Different hierarchies are meant to direct the conversation around specific topics. Dev.* is for development discussion, while Support.* is for support questions from end users. This allows us to have separate conversations for different audiences (mozilla.dev.apps.firefox vs mozilla.support.firefox).

Q: Why we don't propogate NNTP

Answer: Because Giganews.

Q: Should I mirror news.mozilla.org?

Answer: Nope.

Reporting Problems

Please <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=mozilla.org&component=Discussion%20Forums">file a bug</a>.