To subscribe to any www-@w3.org list, please send email to the automatic list request, as described below. For example, to subscribe to www-html@w3.org, you should send email to www-html-request@w3.org.
The -request mail address should be used for all list administrative requests. It accepts the following commands (in the Subject of an email message):
Two lists, www-talk@w3.org and www-html@w3.org, are also available in digest form, which allows you to receive all messages of the day combined into one message. You can subscribe to these by sending mail to www-talk-d-request@w3.org or www-html-d-request@w3.org.
In the event of an address change, it would probably be wisest to first send an unsubscribe for the old address (this can be done from the new address), and then a new subscribe from the new address (the order is important).
Most (un)subscription requests are processed automatically without human intervention. Do not send multiple (un)subscription or info requests in one mail. Only one will be processed per mail.
NOTE: The "-request" server usually does quite a good job in discriminating between (un)subscribe requests and messages intended for the maintainer. If you'd like to make sure a human reads your message, make it look like a reply (i.e. the first word in the "Subject:" field should be "Re:", without the quotes of course); the "-request" server does not react to replies!
Every submission sent to this list is archived. Eventually, this archive will be accessible via HTTP.
If you want to access this archive by email, you have to send mail to the "-request" address with the word "archive" as the first word of your "Subject:". To get you started, try sending a mail to the "-request" address with the following:
Subject: archive help