There are a number of mailing lists maintained on this site, as well as on the fatpenguin.com servers:

The list server is running GNU Mailman. The previous installation of Majordomo has been dumped in favor of Mailman inasmuch as it is far easier to maintain. The old Majordomo mailing list archives remain online for searching, and are accessible from the FTP links provided below. I plan to implement ht:/dig site search capabilities, but intend to wait until I have all of the outdated content cleaned off of the servers.

Subscribing to the mailing lists is as simple as filling out a web form. Whatever email account that you use to subscribe to the list will be the one that receives the messages or digests. You can optionally add other email addresses to allow posting from multiple e-mail accounts, but that's a separate process that's not covered by the Mailman web interface. Simply send a message listing the alternate accounts to the 'Contact List Admin' link provided below, and I will accommodate your requests as quickly as possible.

Once registered, you will receive a confirmation message sent to the subscribed e-mail account. You must reply to this message in order to activate your subscription. This is simply a precaution to guard against Denial-of-Service attacks and to discourage SPAMers. As part of the registration process, you are required to pick a password for the list. Please keep your password, as you will need it to modify your list options; such as to select either single-messages or digests, and also to temporarily turn off mail delivery while away on vacations. If you forget your password, you can request that it be sent to your registered email account via the web interface. You will also receive monthly notification of your password.

The servers will be configured with SPAMassassin and MIME-Defang, so please don't forward SPAM into the list or design your email messages to resemble SPAM, as they will be forwarded to the infinite bit-bucket, /dev/null.

Please also note that very few of the list members are using e-mail clients that are capable of reading HTML, XML or MIME'd messages. This is the tradition in UNIX, so please do not forward such messages to the lists. Set your e-mail client to only send plain ASCII text to the mailing list and you will be OK. Mis-formatted messages will be rejected, as will messages that are longer than the maximum allowed for posting (currently 40,000 characters).