Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be

merged with bugreports.html somehow.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@7701 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/DOCS/bugreports.html b/DOCS/bugreports.html
index 68aeed309c..ad018d51c5 100644
--- a/DOCS/bugreports.html
+++ b/DOCS/bugreports.html
@@ -246,7 +246,9 @@ and send the complete output to us.
 
 <P>If something is quite big (logs for instance) then it is better to upload
   it to the FTP server in a compressed format (gzip and bzip2 preferred) and
-  include only the path and filename in your bug report.</P>
+  include only the path and filename in your bug report. Our mailing lists
+  have a message size limit of 80k, if you have something bigger you have to
+  compress or upload it.</P>
 
 
 <H2>I know what I am doing...</H2>
diff --git a/DOCS/documentation.html b/DOCS/documentation.html
index 71d4dac6a3..8891c62d99 100644
--- a/DOCS/documentation.html
+++ b/DOCS/documentation.html
@@ -1566,59 +1566,61 @@ end
 
 <H1><A NAME="mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></H1>
 
-<P>There are some public mailing lists on <B>MPlayer</B>. Subscribing can be
-  achieved on the following addresses:</P>
+<P>There are some public mailing lists on <B>MPlayer</B>. Unless explicitly
+  stated otherwise the language of these lists is <B>English</B>. Please do
+  not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! Message size limit is 80k.
+  If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the
+  links to subscribe.</P>
 
 <UL>
   <LI>MPlayer developers list:
     <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A><BR>
-    This list is about mplayer development! Talking about interface/API changes,
-    new libraries, code optimization, configure changes, and send patches here.
-    Do NOT send bug reports, user questions, feature requests or flames here!
-    This list should be kept low-traffic.</LI>
+    This list is about <B>MPlayer</B> development! Talking about interface/API
+    changes, new libraries, code optimization, configure changes is ontopic
+    here. Send patches but <B>not</B> bug reports, user questions, feature
+    requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.</LI>
   <LI>MPlayer users list:
     <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
     <UL>
-      <LI>Send bug reports here (after reading the <A HREF="#known_bugs">Known Bugs</A>
-        section, and <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting section</A>).</LI>
-      <LI>Send feature requests here (after reading the WHOLE documentation).</LI>
-      <LI>Send user questions here (after reading the WHOLE documentation).</LI>
+      <LI>Send bug reports here after reading the <A HREF="#known_bugs">Known Bugs</A>
+        and <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting section</A>).</LI>
+      <LI>Send feature requests here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
+        documentation).</LI>
+      <LI>Send user questions here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
+        documentation).</LI>
     </UL>
   </LI>
   <LI>MPlayer Hungarian users list:
     <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
     <UL>
       <LI>Hungarian language list</LI>
-      <LI>topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to now :(</LI>
+      <LI>Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to now :(</LI>
     </UL>
   </LI>
-  <LI>MPlayer &amp; Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:<BR>
-    <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A>
-    Send Matrox related questions here
+  <LI>MPlayer &amp; Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:
+    <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A><BR>
+    Matrox related questions like
     <UL>
       <LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
       <LI>Matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI>
-      <LI>and about matroxfb-TVout stuff.</LI>
+      <LI>matroxfb-TVout stuff</LI>
     </UL>
   </LI>
   <LI>MPlayer &amp; DVB card users:
     <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A><BR>
-    Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (NOT DXR3!).
+    Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (<B>not</B> DXR3!).
   </LI>
   <LI>MPlayer CVS-log:
     <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A><BR>
-    Send only questions about CVS changes here (if you do not understand why a
+    All changes in <B>MPlayer</B> code are automatically sent to this list. Only
+    questions about these changes belong here (if you do not understand why a
     change is required or you have a better fix or you have noticed a possible
-    bug/problem in the committed patch). Be sure in that your target developer
-    reads this list!</LI>
+    bug/problem in the commit).</LI>
   <LI>MPlayer Cygwin-porting list:
     <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin</A><BR>
-    List for discussion about MPlayer's Cygwin port.</LI>
+    List for discussion about <B>MPlayer</B>'s Cygwin port.</LI>
 </UL>
 
-<P><B>Note:</B> Unless explicitly stated otherwise the language of the above
-  lists is <B>English</B>. Please do not send messages in other languages!</P>
-
 <P><B>Note:</B> You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
   <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch</A>.