### Specialist mailing lists

The previous question, “getting help”, talked of the two major forums in which (La)TeX, Metafont and MetaPost are discussed; however, these aren’t the only ones available.

The TUG web site offers many mailing lists other than just `texhax` via its mail list management page.

The French national TeX user group, Gutenberg, offers a Metafont (and, de facto, MetaPost) mailing list, metafont@ens.fr: subscribe to it by sending a message

>     subscribe metafont

to sympa@ens.fr

Note that there’s also a MetaPost-specific mailing list available via the TUG lists; in fact there’s little danger of becoming confused by subscribing to both.

Announcements of TeX-related installations on the CTAN archives are sent to the mailing list `ctan-ann`. Subscribe to the list via its MailMan web-site https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann; list archives are available at the same address. The list archives may also be browsed via http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/, and an RSS feed is also available: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/maillist.xml

This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists*