docs: Update website, lessen mailing list references

The mailing list has not been used for a while.
Start deprecating it.

Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77@gmail.com>

Author: freddy77

doc/htdoc/contrib.html

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-So you want to help out the FreeTDS Project? We greatly appreciate all offers. There are a number of ways to help and this page will let you know about them.
+So you want to help out the FreeTDS Project? We greatly appreciate all offers.
+There are a number of ways to help and this page will let you know about them.
+More information are also in a specific section of the <a href="userguide/contrib.html">User Guide</a>.
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-If you are a programmer and wish to contribute code, please join our <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds">Mailing List</a>.
-Preferred form for patches are pull request from <a href="https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds/">GitHub</a> against the current master branch.
+Preferred form for patches are pull request from <a href="https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds/pulls">GitHub</a> against the current master branch.
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 If your C skills aren't up to snuff, but you still want to help, consider pitching in on the <a href="docs.html">FreeTDS documentation</a>.  If something didn't make sense when you read it, let us know.  Or if you want to detail how you got a specific configuration working, send it in and we'll include it in the <a href="userguide/">User Guide</a>, so those that come after you will have an easier time.
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doc/htdoc/docs.html

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-FreeTDS has three basic pieces of end-user documentation, the FAQ, the User Guide, and the Reference Manual.
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-The <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)</a> list covers questions the come up often on the mailing list and usually contains known bugs and work arounds, questions about feature support, and common pitfalls first time users may encounter.
+FreeTDS has three basic pieces of end-user documentation, the User Guide, the Reference Manual, and the FAQ.
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-If you have checked both of these documents and have not found the answer to your problem, the <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/">Mailing List Archive</a> is available for searching.
+The <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)</a> list covers questions the come up often and usually contains known bugs and work arounds, questions about feature support, and common pitfalls first time users may encounter.
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+If you have checked both of these documents and have not found the answer to your problem, the old <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/">Mailing List Archive</a> is available for searching.
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-If you are interested in the format of the TDS protocol itself there is some <a href="tds.html">preliminary documentation</a> included with the distribution.
+If you are interested in the format of the TDS protocol itself there is some <a href="tds.html">documentation</a> included with the distribution.
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doc/htdoc/index.html

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 <font size="+3"><b>T</b></font>echnically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by these databases for their own clients.  It supports many different flavors of the protocol and three APIs to access it.  Additionally FreeTDS works with other software such as Perl and PHP, providing access from those languages as well. </p>
 
-<p>If you are looking for a Java implementation, we refer you to the <a href="http://jtds.sourceforge.net/">jTDS project</a> on SourceForge.  </p>
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 <font size="+3"><b>F</b></font>reeTDS has many possible uses.  It has been used by Unix/Linux webservers to present data stored in SQL Server to the web, to port SQL Server database code from NT to Unix, to import data into SQL Server from a Unix source, and to provide database access on platforms (such as realtime systems) that have no native drivers.
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 		<li><a href="reference/">Reference Manual</a></li>
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-<b>Mailing List</b>
-	<ul>
-		<li><a href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds">Subscribe</a></li>
-		<li><a href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/">Archive</a></li>
-	</ul>
-
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 <b>Developing</b>
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 		<li><a href="https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds">Browse Git Repository</a></li>
 		<li><a href="https://freetds.sourceforge.net/">Nightly test results</a>  </li>
 		<li><a href="https://ci.appveyor.com/project/FreeTDS/freetds/history">AppVeyor results</a><br /><img src="https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/kdlem8y26f8uu8xa/branch/master?svg=true&amp;pendingText=master%20...&amp;passingText=master%20-%20OK&amp;failingText=master%20-%20KO" alt="" /></li>
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+<b>Mailing List</b>
+	<ul>
+		<li><a href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/">Archive</a></li>
+	</ul>
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doc/htdoc/support.html

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 You can refers to <a href="https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds">GitHub project</a> for issues or questions.
-The next step is to subscribe and post a question to the <a href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/">Mailing List</a>.
+You could have a look at the <a href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/">Mailing List Archive</a>.
 Please read the <a href="https://www.freetds.org/userguide/help.html">Getting Help</a> section of the User Guide to ensure that the folks on the list can isolate and fix your problem.
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