Here are some changes. Mostly just making things clearer.
-Amir
--- mailing.orig Sun Apr 11 17:46:05 1999
+++ mailing.html Sun Apr 11 18:23:43 1999
@@ -121,11 +121,12 @@
<li>The Developer's list. High volume.
<font size=-1>(<a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/">archive</a>)</font>
</ul>
- They each serve a different purpose. You can check the archives
- to get a feeling for which might be relevant to you. (Unfortunately,
- not all of the archives are in one place. Sorry. Now that we've got
- all of the mailing lists consolidated, we hope we won't have to migrate
- the archives any more.) </p>
+ They each serve a different purpose. You can check the archives at
+ <a href="www.mail-archive.com">The Mail Archive</a>
+ to get a feeling for which might be relevant to you.
+ (Unfortunately, not all older messages are stored there. Sorry. Now that
+ we've got all of the mailing lists consolidated, we hope we won't have to
+ migrate the archives any more.) </p>
<p> The developer's and user's lists also feature digests.
Every once in a while, a group of messages are sent together. This will
@@ -132,21 +133,37 @@
take up the same amount of memory in your mailbox, of course, but
will arrive with lower frequency.
- <h3>How the mailing lists work</h3>
- All of the mailing lists use the same simple software.
- For a hypothetical lyx-foo mailing list, you
+ <h3>How the LyX mailing lists work</h3>
+ All of LyX the mailing lists use the
+ <a href="www.ezmlm.org">ezmlm</a> mailing list software. All messages
+ of any type go to an address in the domain "lists.lyx.org".
+ Changing the "account name" before the "@lists.lyx.org" will determine
+ which LyX mailing list you send to, and whether your message goes to
+ the mailing list subscribers, the (human) owner of the mailing list,
+ or the ezmlm daemon (software) that runs the mailing list.</p>
+
+ <p> For a hypothetical lyx-foo mailing list, you
would send mail to:
<ul>
<li> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to contribute, i.e.,
to send a message to everyone on the mailing list
+ <li> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to contact the owner of
+ the mailing list. Please use this address only if necessary!
+ </ul>
+ To subscribe, unsubscribe, or get a help message, do
+ <strong>not</strong> send a message to the whole mailing list, or
+ to the owner. Instead, send mail to the mailing list daemon at:
+ <ul>
<li> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe
<li> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe
<li> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a help message, which
will tell you how to do things like get an index of messages,
- retrieve one or more messages, or contact the (human) list owner
+ or retrieve one or more messages
</ul>
- Note: the address is the important thing; the subject and body of the
- message can be completely empty! </p>
+ For messages to the daemon, the address is the important
+ thing; the subject and body of the message can be completely empty!
+ (On the other hand, humans generally appreciate messages with
+ non-empty subject and body.)
<h4>Help! I can't unsubscribe!</h4>
<p> There are a number of more sophisticated commands available, which
@@ -153,9 +170,9 @@
the help message describes. Of particular interest, the mailing list
daemon may sometimes think that your address isn't exactly what you
think it is. Avoid this confusion by putting your desired mailing
- address into a subscribe or unsubscribe message, replacing the '@'
- with a '='. For example, to have the daemon send messages to
- [EMAIL PROTECTED], subscribe by mailing to
+ address into a subscribe or unsubscribe message, replacing the '@' in
+ your address with a '='. For example, if you want to receive
+ mailing list messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED], subscribe by mailing to
<pre>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</pre>
Or unsubscribe that address by mailing to
<pre>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</pre>
@@ -165,12 +182,14 @@
mail that address for a confirmation.</p>
<p>In every message you get from the LyX mailing lists, there will
- be a line like this:
+ be a line like this, which will tell you the unsubscribing address:
<pre>
List-Unsubscribe:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]></pre>
- This will remind you how to unsubscribe, so you don't have to mail
- the mailing list asking how to do so!
+
+ <p> If you have trouble subscribing or unsubscribing, please try
+ mailing the list owner (e.g. at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) before
+ mailing the whole mailing list with an "I can't unsubscribe" message.
<h3>Announcement list</h3>
