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1.1 A List's Email Addresses</A>
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Every mailing list has a set of email addresses that messages can be
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sent to. There's always one address for posting messages to the list,
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one address that bounces will be sent to, and addresses for processing
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email commands. For example, for a mailing list called
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<var>mylist@example.com</var>, you'd find these addresses:
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<LI>mylist@example.com - this is the email address people should
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use for new postings to the list.
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<LI>mylist-join@example.com - by sending a message to this address,
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<span class="mailheader">Subject:</span> header and body of such a message are
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ignored. Note that mylist-subscribe@example.com is an alias for
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<LI>mylist-leave@example.com - by sending a message to this address,
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<LI>mylist-owner@example.com - This address reaches the list owner
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subscription options, as well as process other commands.
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robot, which processes confirmation messages for subscription
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