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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>The Mailing List</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="userguide.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FreeTDS User Guide" /><link rel="up" href="help.html" title="Chapter 9. Getting Help" /><link rel="prev" href="IsolateCause.html" title="Isolate the cause" /><link rel="next" href="askingforhelp.html" title="What to include when asking for help" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">The Mailing List</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IsolateCause.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 9. Getting Help</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="askingforhelp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="mailinglist"></a>The Mailing List</h2></div></div></div><div class="epigraph"><div class="literallayout"><p><br /> In them I trust; for they are [hackers]<br /> Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.<br /> </p></div><div class="attribution"><span>—<span class="attribution">3 Henry VI, I, ii, approximately</span></span></div></div><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="Archive"></a>The Archive</h3></div></div></div><p>The <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> mailing list <a class="ulink" href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/" target="_top">archive</a> is a good place to start. It is searchable. It should be considered the most up to date (and least edited) source of information.</p><p>New developments between releases tend <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> to be announced on the website. The website is updated only intermittently, when we post a new release or <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> is somehow in the news, say. If you found a bug or need a feature, you may find it was announced/discussed/fixed by perusing the archive.</p></div><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="Asklist"></a>Ask the list</h3></div></div></div><p>Many of the original authors and anyone maintaining or extending the code reads the list. The traffic tends to be bursty. It usually focuses on build problems and troubleshooting. Again, the more specific your question, the sooner you'll get a useful reply (if it comes).</p><p>Please, do not email the authors directly. You may well be ignored because they're they type that gets a ton of mail. Anyone willing to address your question reads the list, and you don't want to offend anyone willing to help you by going about it the wrong way.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IsolateCause.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="help.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="askingforhelp.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Isolate the cause </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> What to include when asking for help</td></tr></table></div></body></html>