scala-user-subscribe@listes.epfl.ch
The software managing the list will answer with a message containing a text along these lines:
To confirm that you would like
your_name@xx.yy.zz
added to this mailing list, please send an empty reply to this address:
scala-user-sc.950281983.mgoifceebaalgongomon@listes.epfl.ch
Your mailer should have a Reply feature that uses this address automatically.
This confirmation serves two purposes. First, it verifies that I am able
to get mail through to you. Second, it protects you in case someone
forges a subscription request in your name.
To confirm your subscription, you should answer with an E-mail (again,
its content is unimportant) to the given address. In the example above,
it is
scala-user-sc.950281983.mgoifceebaalgongomon@listes.epfl.ch,
but the 950281983 and
mgoifceebaalgongomon parts will be different in each
particular case. This makes forged subscriptions virtually impossible.
The software tries to determine your E-mail address and tells you what it think it is (it would be your_name@xx.yy.zz in the above example). It may happen that you would like to use another address (e.g. because it is your physical address user@machine.epfl.ch and not your logical address firstname.name@epfl.ch). You can do it by changing the @ sign to a = sign in the address you would like to use and putting this before the @ sign of the subscription address. As an example, to use the address firstname.name@epfl.ch, you would send a message to:
scala-user-subscribe-firstname.name=epfl.ch@listes.epfl.ch
scala-user-unsubscribe@listes.epfl.ch
In case you subscribed with an explicit address (e.g. firstname.name@epfl.ch), you would use instead:
scala-user-unsubscribe-firstname.name=epfl.ch@listes.epfl.ch
Just as in the subscription procedure, you will receive an answer requesting that you confirm your wish to unsubscribe by sending a message to a a complicated address. The purpose of this is again to avoid being removed from the mailing-list by a malicious person.