Re: Request for subscription to the mailing list

[Roderik Muit <]

Dear people,

Even though almost all people subscribed to ripe-mailinglists are
service providers and/or experienced Internet users, there appears to
be a number of people having some difficulty with the concept of
mailinglists.

In the past 2 weeks, we have seen about 6 messages of people wanting
to be subscribed to a mailinglist, sent to either local-ir@localhost
or ripe-list@localhost.  

These addresses are the addresses of the lists themselves. Messages to
these addresses go to everyone on this list. Messages like 'subscribe
me' should therefore NOT go to these addresses. If you want to
(un)subscribe you can use one of the following addresses:

  majordomo@localhost (except for closed lists like 'local-ir' and 'ncc-co')
  ncc@localhost
  <owner-[LISTNAME]@ripe.net>
  postmaster@localhost
but sending those messages to (all recipients of) the list makes no sense.

Thank you.