Mailing list

There is an active mailing list for discussing Lua called lua-l. Everyone is welcome to join and discuss the language, its uses, and its implementation. The list has been in continuous operation for over 10 years now and is one of the focal points of the Lua community; it has over 1500 subscribers from all over the world, including several Lua experts and the Lua team.

You must subscribe to the list before posting. You can only post from the address you have subscribed. Postings from an unsubscribed address will be rejected automatically. If you want to post from a different address, subscribe again using that address and turn off delivery for it.

All messages sent to the list are archived. The full archive (35Mb+ containing all 47000+ postings since lua-l was created in Feb 1997) is available at several sites. An archive of recent postings (those posted since Jan 2008) and a daily digest are also available at the same sites. All three archives are plain-text mailboxes in mbox format; they should be readable with most, if not all, mail readers. There are also web interfaces for reading and searching the archives at Conectiva, lua-users.org, MARC, and Gmane.

Please be careful when replying to a message posted to the list, because your reply will be sent to the whole list, instead of just to the author. Please take a moment and read some useful information on mailing list netiquette. An important part of netiquette is learning how to quote previous posts and also how to ask questions and how to report bugs effectively. For background information on netiquette, see RFC1855.

Last, but not least, please send only plain text messages to the list. Avoid HTML messages and multipart/alternative MIME messages (some mail programs send HTML versions of your messages by default; you may not even be aware that you are sending HTML messages, so learn how to turn this off). Send attachments only when they are small; otherwise put them in a web site and post the URL instead. Messages with large attachments will be rejected automatically.