# SANE - Mailing Lists and IRC Channel

## Mailing lists

There are three mailing lists for SANE: sane-announce, sane-devel and sane-commit.

### sane-announce

sane-announce is a low-traffic list for release and similar announces. It's intended for users who want to know when a new release or beta snapshot of sane-backends or frontends becomes available. The list is moderated.

You can subscribe to sane-announce by sending a mail containing the word "subscribe" in the subject to sane-announce-request@lists.alioth.debian.org. To unsubscribe, send a mail containing "unsubscribe password" to that address. You get the password by email once you have subscribed. You can also subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your settings by using the web interface.

There is also an archive of sane-announce.

### sane-devel

sane-devel is the main discussion list for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Despite its name, it's also intended for users. You need to be subscribed to be able to send mail to this list. If you are not subscribed, your mail may be posted by the moderator but that can take some time. When answering to a posting, keep in mind that the response is directed to the author by default. If you want to respond to the list, please use the "reply-to-list" (or similar) function of your mail client.

You can subscribe to sane-devel by sending a mail containing the word "subscribe" in the subject to sane-devel-request@lists.alioth.debian.org. To unsubscribe, send a mail containing "unsubscribe password" to that address. You get the password by email once you have subscribed. You can also subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your settings by using the web interface.

There are also archives of the sane-devel mailing list. The current archive contains the messages sent from 2001-07-16 until today. The old archive contains older messages.

You can also search the archives. However, the data of the search engine is not up-to-date so it won't find articles later than 2003-09-18. Thanks to Jochen Eisinger for making available the search engine.

### sane-commit

When a developer changes the source code of SANE in CVS, an email containing a summary of the changes is sent to sane-commit. If you are interested in changes in the SANE source, this list is for you. The list is read-only.

You can subscribe to sane-announce by sending a mail containing the word "subscribe" in the subject to sane-commit-request@lists.alioth.debian.org. To unsubscribe, send a mail containing "unsubscribe password" to that address. You get the password by email once you have subscribed. You can also subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your settings by using the web interface.

## SANE IRC Channel

The SANE IRC channel #sane (irc.freenode.net) is intended for discussions about SANE and for getting help. Please be patient, answers can take some time. Please read the documentation before asking. Tell us which scanner, which operating system and which version of SANE (scanimage --version) you use.

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