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Author: robweir
Date: Mon Mar  4 17:42:55 2013
New Revision: 1452419

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1452419
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@@ -26,18 +26,43 @@ and is visible to the the public, indexe
 be removed in extraordinary circumstances, in accordance with Apache's [Public Forum
 Archive Policy](http://www.apache.org/foundation/public-archives.html)
 
- - [Participation Guidelines](#participation-guidelines).
- - [Users Mailing List](#users-mailing-list-public).
- - [API Mailing List](#api-mailing-list-public).
- - [Marketing Mailing List](#marketing-mailing-list-public).
- - [Announce Mailing List](#announce-mailing-list).
- - [Development Mailing List](#development-mailing-list-public).
- - [Documentation Mailing List](#documentation-mailing-list-public).
- - [Quality Assurance (QA) Mailing List](#qa-mailing-list-public).
- - [Localization Mailing List](#localization-mailing-list-public).
- - [Commits Mailing List](#commits-mailing-list).
- - [Issues Mailing List](#issues-mailing-list).
- - [Legacy OpenOffice.org Lists](#legacy-openofficeorg-lists).
+ - [Using Mailing Lists](#using-mailing-lists)
+ - [Participation Guidelines](#participation-guidelines)
+ - [Users Mailing List](#users-mailing-list-public)
+ - [API Mailing List](#api-mailing-list-public)
+ - [Marketing Mailing List](#marketing-mailing-list-public)
+ - [Announce Mailing List](#announce-mailing-list)
+ - [Development Mailing List](#development-mailing-list-public)
+ - [Documentation Mailing List](#documentation-mailing-list-public)
+ - [Quality Assurance (QA) Mailing List](#qa-mailing-list-public)
+ - [Localization Mailing List](#localization-mailing-list-public)
+ - [Commits Mailing List](#commits-mailing-list)
+ - [Issues Mailing List](#issues-mailing-list)
+ - [Legacy OpenOffice.org Lists](#legacy-openofficeorg-lists)
+
+
+## Using Mailing Lists
+
+A mailing list is a way to share information and coordinate with other project members.  When you send an email
+to a mailing list it is forwarded to all other subscribers to that mailing list.  
+
+Every OpenOffice mailing list has a list address, of the form: xxx@openoffice.apache.org, where you replace "xxx"
+with the actual list name, such as "dev" or "qa" or "marketing".  
+
+There are three basic operations you should know about:
+
+  - To send an email to the mailing list, and have it forwarded to all other subscribers, send an email to the
+list's address, xxx.openoffice.org.
+  - To subscribe to the mailing list, so you start receiving all posts to the mailing list, send an email to
+xxx-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org.  You will then receive a confirmation email.  Once you respond to the 
+confirmation email you are subscribed.
+  - To unsubscribe to the mailing list, so you stop receiving all posts to the mailing list, send an email to
+xxx-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org.  You will then receive a confirmation email.  Once you respond to the 
+confirmation email you are unsubscribed.
+
+NOTE: Please do not send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to the mailing list itself (xxx@openoffice.apache.org).  
+You must send these requests to the special xxx-subscribe and xxx-unsubscribe addresses.
+
 
 ## Participation Guidelines
 We ask all mailing list participants to observe [these conduct guidelines][1].