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Mailing Lists
Resist the temptation – never send a personal email
- Goes double for developers
- Goes quadruple for Linus himself (!)
Know the code of conduct of each mailing list (netiquette)
General rules
- Be polite, they're doing you a favor anyway
- Be precise, they can't read minds
- Try to solve your problem before asking for help
- Send [SOLVED] and thank people who help you
Notes:
If you can't find the proper mailing list, try locating a LUG (Linux Users Group) and searching their mailing list archive.
An example of a LUG close to CMU is WPLUG (Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group).
Sometimes, the mailing list archives do not have a search interface on the web – you need to download the archive and search it manually. That's fine, just grab the tarball, extract it, and use less to read through it and look for strings of interest, or just grep -n through it.