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2011-02-27

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I.  FINDING OUT WHICH LISTS ARE ON THIS SYSTEM

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following line in the body of your mail message to majord...@lugwash.org:

lists

Each line will contain the name of a mailing list and a brief description
of the list.

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supplying the name of the list.  For example, if the name of the list 
about which you wish information is demo-list, you would put the line

info demo-list

in the body of the mail message.

II. SUBSCRIBING TO A LIST

Once you've determined that you wish to subscribe to one or more lists on
this system, you can send commands to Majordomo to have it add you to the
list, so you can begin receiving mailings.

To receive list mail at the address from which you're sending your mail,
simply say subscribe followed by the list's name:

subscribe demo-list

If for some reason you wish to have the mailings go to a different address
(a friend's address, a specific other system on which you have an account,
or an address which is more correct than the one that automatically appears 
in the From: header on the mail you send), you would add that address to
the command.  For instance, if you're sending a request from your work
account, but wish to receive demo-list mail at your personal account
(for which we will use jqpub...@my-isp.com as an example), you'd put
the line

subscribe demo-list jqpub...@my-isp.com

in the mail message body.

Based on configuration decisions made by the list owners, you may be added 
to the mailing list automatically.  You may also receive notification
that an authorization key is required for subscription.  Another message
will be sent to the address to be subscribed (which may or may not be the
same as yours) containing the key, and directing the user to send a
command found in that message back to majord...@lugwash.org.  (This can be
a bit of extra hassle, but it helps keep you from being swamped in extra
email by someone who forged requests from your address.)  You may also
get a message that your subscription is being forwarded to the list owner
for approval; some lists have waiting lists, or policies about who may
subscribe.  If your request is forwarded for approval, the list owner
should contact you soon after your request.

Upon subscribing, you should receive an introductory message, containing
list policies and features.  Save this message for future reference; it
will also contain exact directions for unsubscribing.  If you lose the
intro mail and would like another copy of the policies, send this message
to majord...@lugwash.org:

intro demo-list

(substituting, of course, the real name of your list for demo-list).

III.UNSUBSCRIBING FROM MAILING LISTS

Your original intro message contains the exact command which should be
used to remove your address from the list.  However, in most cases, you
may simply send the command unsubscribe followed by the list name:

unsubscribe demo-list

(This command may fail if your provider has changed the way your
address is shown in your mail.)

To remove an address other than the one from which you're sending
the request, give that address in the command:

unsubscribe demo-list jqpub...@my-isp.com

In either of these cases, you can tell majord...@lugwash.org to remove
the address in question from all lists on this server by using *
in place of the list name:

unsubscribe *
unsubscribe * jqpub...@my-isp.com

IV. FINDING THE LISTS TO WHICH AN ADDRESS IS SUBSCRIBED

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