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Subscribing to a list is simple and includes safeguards to prevent abuse of the list. In the subscription section type your e-mail address and then select a password. The password will be used later when you want to log in and change your personal settings.
When you fill out the form you also have the option to receive mail from
the list batched in a daily digest. This is convenient if you are a member
of a number of lists or if the list that you are joining has a lot of
traffic. If you change your mind you will be able to change the digest
option at a later time as detailed in the "options" section
below.
After you supply your e-mail address and password you should press the
subscribe button to add yourself to the list. Your addition to the list
is not, however, immediate. After you submit the form Mailman will send
an e-mail message to the address that you used to subscribe. The message
that you receive will ask you to confirm your subscription request (this
is to prevent someone from maliciously adding you to mail lists that you
do not want to join). When you receive the confirmation request just follow
the instructions - the simplest thing being just to hit the "reply"
button in your mail program. If you send the message back without altering
the subject line (the Re: added by your mailer is OK) then your confirmation
will be accepted.
Please keep this message in a safe place. You will need the information that it contains if you ever want modify your personal settings or remove yourself from the list. For most lists this information will be mailed to you as a monthly reminder, but just to be safe you should always keep the original.
