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Mention that comp.terminals may also be a useful newsgroup.
I've done this by centralising information about newsgroups in feedback.but and linking to that from elsewhere; I've also put in a link to Google Groups. [originally from svn r4781]
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\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.82 2004/10/08 12:38:08 jacob Exp $
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\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.83 2004/11/15 15:57:28 jacob Exp $
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\A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
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@ -1059,8 +1059,8 @@ There isn't one, that we know of.
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If someone else wants to set up a mailing list or other forum for
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PuTTY users to help each other with common problems, that would be
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fine with us, though the PuTTY team would almost certainly not have the
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time to read it. It's probably better to use the established
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newsgroup \cw{comp.security.ssh} for this purpose.
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time to read it. It's probably better to use one of the established
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newsgroups for this purpose (see \k{feedback-other-fora}).
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\S{faq-donations}{Question} How can I donate to PuTTY development?
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\versionid $Id: feedback.but,v 1.19 2004/09/19 23:49:46 jacob Exp $
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\versionid $Id: feedback.but,v 1.20 2004/11/15 15:57:28 jacob Exp $
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\A{feedback} Feedback and bug reporting
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The PuTTY development team gets a \e{lot} of mail. If you can
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possibly solve your own problem by reading the manual, reading the
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FAQ, reading the web site, asking a fellow user, perhaps posting on
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the newsgroup \W{news:comp.security.ssh}\c{comp.security.ssh}, or
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some other means, then it would make our lives much easier.
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FAQ, reading the web site, asking a fellow user, perhaps posting to a
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newsgroup (see \k{feedback-other-fora}), or some other means, then it
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would make our lives much easier.
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We get so much e-mail that we literally do not have time to answer
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it all. We regret this, but there's nothing we can do about it. So
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if you can \e{possibly} avoid sending mail to the PuTTY team, we
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recommend you do so. In particular, support requests
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(\k{feedback-support}) are probably better sent to
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\W{news:comp.security.ssh}\c{comp.security.ssh} or passed to a local
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expert if possible.
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(\k{feedback-support}) are probably better sent to newsgroups, or
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passed to a local expert if possible.
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The PuTTY contact email address is a private mailing list containing
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four or five core developers. Don't be put off by it being a mailing
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@ -88,6 +87,21 @@ modification. If you've only changed 10 lines, we'd prefer to
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receive a mail that's 30 lines long than one containing multiple
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megabytes of data we already have.
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\S{feedback-other-fora} Other places to ask for help
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There are two Usenet newsgroups that are particularly relevant to the
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PuTTY tools:
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\b \W{news:comp.security.ssh}\c{comp.security.ssh}, for questions
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specific to using the SSH protocol;
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\b \W{news:comp.terminals}\c{comp.terminals}, for issues relating to
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terminal emulation (for instance, keyboard problems).
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If you don't have direct access to Usenet, you can access these
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newsgroups through Google Groups
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(\W{http://groups.google.com/}\cw{groups.google.com}).
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\H{feedback-bugs} Reporting bugs
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If you think you have found a bug in PuTTY, your first steps should
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@ -180,8 +194,8 @@ think the documentation is unclear or unhelpful. But we do need to
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be given exact details of \e{what} you think the documentation has
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failed to tell you, or \e{how} you think it could be made clearer.
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If your problem is simply that you don't \e{understand} the
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documentation, we suggest posting to the newsgroup
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\W{news:comp.security.ssh}\c{comp.security.ssh} and see if someone
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documentation, we suggest posting to a newsgroup (see
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\k{feedback-other-fora}) and seeing if someone
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will explain what you need to know. \e{Then}, if you think the
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documentation could usefully have told you that, send us a bug
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report and explain how you think we should change it.
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include:
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\b If you want to do something with PuTTY but have no idea where to
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start, and reading the manual hasn't helped, try posting to the
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newsgroup \W{news:comp.security.ssh}\c{comp.security.ssh} and see if
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someone can explain it to you.
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start, and reading the manual hasn't helped, try posting to a
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newsgroup (see \k{feedback-other-fora}) and see if someone can explain
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it to you.
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\b If you have tried to do something with PuTTY but it hasn't
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worked, and you aren't sure whether it's a bug in PuTTY or a bug in
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your SSH server or simply that you're not doing it right, then try
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posting to \W{news:comp.security.ssh}\c{comp.security.ssh} and see
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posting to a newsgroup (see \k{feedback-other-fora}) and see
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if someone can solve your problem. Or try doing the same thing with
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a different SSH client and see if it works with that. Please do not
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report it as a PuTTY bug unless you are really sure it \e{is} a bug
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