Discussion Forums/FAQ

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Introduction

Mozilla Discussion Forums exist as mailing lists as well as newsgroups. Because NNTP is a different beast than traditional email, there sometimes arise problems or questions on how to use our newsgroup system optimally. Below is the aggregate.

Reporting Questions/Problems

Please file a bug in the Discussion Forums component if you have any problems with news.mozilla.org or Mozilla's Discussion Forums.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do I delete a message?

To delete a message from Google Groups, the user that controls the email the message was posted from must submit a request on the Google Groups website. A link is available when viewing the message on the Groups website.

To remove a message from GigaNews and the Mozilla archive, please file a bug in the Discussion Forums component and include the relevant message information.

Q: Why don't you allow binary Attachments?

The are dangerous because file extensions can lie, masking a malicious program as a benign binary file.

Q: What is with the hierarchy (mozilla.dev.*, qa.*, reps.*, support.*)?

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 don't you propogate NNTP?

Because Giganews.

Q: Should I mirror news.mozilla.org?

Probably not.