What I thought would be a good idea, is to include a blerb about it on 
the subscription acceptance message if possible.  I'm not accustomed to 
leaving introductury messages to mailing lists (this was my first one, I 
figured, hell, if everyone else does, why shouldn't I?), so sometimes new 
users just creep up on mailing lists, without others knowing about it.  
Because of that, the only exposure they get to the rules or "features" of 
the list is what they see in the introductury message they get from the 
mailing list daemon.

This FAQ being compiled will BE the subscription acceptance message 
eventually.

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