Many mailing lists associated with IPv6 (and on the internet in general!) use Majordomo as a way to automatically manage subscriptions and unsubscriptions. Using Majordomo-based lists is fairly simple.
To subscribe to a Majordomo managed mailing list, you first need to know the email address of the list. Lets say the list was ourlist@example.com.
You would then send email to majordomo@example.com in order to make requests of the Majordomo system running the list. We will use the ourlist@example.com example throughout the rest of this document.
To subscribe to a Majordomo managed list of the form ourlist@example.com, simply send an email message to majordomo@example.com with the following in the body (not the subject line) of the message:
subscribe ourlist
This will subscribe the account from which you send the message to the mailing list.
If you wish to subscribe another address instead (such as an address you have at another ISP), you can use a command of the form (in the body of the message):
subscribe ourlist other-address@your_site.your_net
To unsubscribe to a Majordomo managed list of the form ourlist@example.com, simply send an email message to majordomo@example.com with the following in the body (not the subject line) of the message:
unsubscribe ourlist
This will unsubscribe the account from which you send the message. If you are subscribed with some other address (see "Subscribing", above), you'll have to send a command of the following form instead:
unsubscribe ourlist other-address@your_site.your_net
To post a message to a list like ourlist@example.com, simply send it to: ourlist@example.com
The mail will automatically be sent to all the subscribers of the list.
Lets say that you are subscribed to a mailing list named ourlist@example.com but you don't know which of several email addresses you use is the address you subscribed with. (This can happen if you forward your mail from several places to one place, for example.) If you don't know what address you are subscribed with, simply send an email message to majordomo@example.com with the following in the body (not the subject line) of the message:
who ourlist
Note that some Majordomo mailing list owners might make this information private, so the command might not work.
If you are interested in learning out about what other commands might be available on a Majordomo server running on example.com, try sending a message to majordomo@example.com with the following in the body (not the subject line) of the message:
help
If you are stuck, DO NOT send mail to the list saying "get me off of this mailing list!!!". Your fellow list subscribers have no way to help you. The maintainer of the mailing list might not even be subscribed to it. Harassing other users of the list is extremely bad manners and usually futile.
Do not send subscription requests to the list itself, either. They go to the "majordomo" address. Sending "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" to the mailing list itself will just post the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" to the mailing list. This will only serve to embarrass you in front of thousands of people, demonstrating that you are someone who cannot read instructions -- it will neither subscribe you to or remove your subscription from the list.
If you are really having trouble, and no automated commands to "majordomo" appear to be working, try sending mail to the maintainer of the list. You can find out who the maintainer is by sending "help" to the majordomo address.
If all else really fails (and not just because you've forgotten the instructions), you can try sending mail to the "postmaster" address on the machine that runs the mailing list. Internet standards require that there be a "postmaster" address and that the mail be read by someone responsible for the functioning of mail on the site.
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