4.4. Where not to look for help
There is no longer anything special about configuring and
running mail under Linux, relative to other Unixes. Accordingly, you
almost certainly do not want to be posting
generic mail-related questions to the comp.os.linux.*
newsgroups.
Unless your posting is truly Linux-specific (ie, ``please tell
me what routers are already compiled into the SLS1.03 version of
smail3.1.28'') you should be asking your questions in one of the
newsgroups or mailing lists referenced above.
Let me repeat that....
There is virtually no reason to post anything mail-related in the
comp.os.linux hierarchy any more. There are existing newsgroups in the
comp.mail.* hierarchy to handle all your questions.
If you post to comp.os.linux.* for non-Linux-specific questions,
you are looking in the wrong place for help. The electronic mail
experts hang out in the places indicated above and generally not in
the Linux groups.
Posting to the Linux hierarchy for non-linux-specific
questions wastes your time and everybody else's...and it frequently
delays you from getting the answer to your question.