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               <h1 class="title">Managing Mailing List Subscriptions</h1>
               <ul class="w3c_toc"><li class="toc_prefix">On this page → </li><li><a href="#general">general information</a><span class="bullet"> • </span></li><li><a href="#addr">subscribing</a><span class="bullet"> • </span></li><li><a href="#unsubscribe">unsubscribing</a><span class="bullet"> • </span></li><li><a href="#help">asking for help</a><span class="bullet"> • </span></li><li><a href="#addr">changing your address</a></li></ul>
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                     <p class="intro tPadding">W3C welcomes participation in W3C work through its many mailing lists.
  See below for information about:</p>

                     
                     

                     <h2 id="general">General Information</h2>
                     <p>All mailing list administrative requests <em>must</em> be sent
  to a <code>*-request</code> address (per <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt">RFC2142</a>),
  <em>never</em> to the list itself. For a mailing list named
  <code>list-name@w3.org</code>, the associated request address
  would be <code>list-name-request@w3.org</code>.</p>
  <p>The following are <strong>examples</strong> of how to determine the request form of a list:</p>
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                        <table><thead><tr><th>list name</th><th class="lastColumn">request address</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
                                    <code>www-html@w3.org</code>
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                                    <code>www-html-request@w3.org</code>
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                        <a name="subscribe" id="subscribe">Subscribing</a>
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                        <strong>Subscribe to the list</strong>. If you want to subscribe under a
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  and our <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/03/email_attachment_formats.html">Guidelines
  for Email Attachment Formats</a> before subscribing.<br />
  Example:<br />
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                     <pre xml:space="preserve">
        To: www-talk-request@w3.org
        Subject: subscribe
</pre>

                     <p>Note that you will not get an acknowledgement if you are
  already subscribed.</p>

                     <p>Also note that W3C mailing lists do not currently support
  a digest mode.  RSS feeds are available, however.</p>

                     <h2 id="unsubscribe">Unsubscribing</h2>


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                        <strong>Unsubscribe from the list</strong>. This can be done from an address
  different from the one with which you subscribed. 
  For example, to unsubscribe from "www-talk@w3.org" use:<br />
                     </p>
                     <pre xml:space="preserve">
        To: www-talk-request@w3.org
        Subject: unsubscribe
</pre>
                     <p>or</p>
                     <pre xml:space="preserve">
        From: new@example.org
        To: www-talk-request@w3.org
        Subject: unsubscribe old@example.org
</pre>

                     <p>Most (un)subscription requests are processed automatically
  without human intervention. Do not send multiple (un)subscription
  or info requests in one mail. Only one will be processed per
  mail.</p>

                     <h2 id="help">Asking for Help</h2>
                     <p>
                        <em>Get information about the mailing list</em>.</p>

                     <p>The <code>*-request</code> server usually does quite a good
  job in discriminating between (un)subscribe requests and messages
  intended for the maintainer. If you for some reason would like to
  make sure a human reads your message, make it look like a reply
  (i.e. the first word in the "<tt>Subject:</tt>" field should be
  "<tt>Re:</tt>", without the quotes of course); the
  <code>*-request</code> server does <b>not</b> react to
  replies.</p>

                     <h2 id="addr">Address Changes</h2>

                     <p>In the event of an address change, first send an
  <strong>unsubscribe</strong> for the old address (this can be
  done from the new address), and then a new
  <strong>subscribe</strong> from the new address (the order is
  important).</p>

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