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As such, we'll frequently give examples for a fictional list called <span class="email">LISTNAME@DOMAIN</span> whose list information page can be found at <a class="url" href="http://WEBSERVER/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME">http://WEBSERVER/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME</a>. <p> Neither of these are real addresses, but they show the form of a typical list address. The capital letters used for the list-specific parts of each address should make it easier to see what should be changed for each list. Although specific list configurations may be different, you will probably be able to just replace the words given in capital letters with the appropriate values for a real list: <p> <dl> <dt><strong>LISTNAME</strong></dt> <dd>The name of your list. </dd> <dt><strong>DOMAIN</strong></dt> <dd>The name of the mail server which handles that list. </dd> <dt><strong>WEBSERVER</strong></dt> <dd>The name of the web server which handles the list web interface. This may be the same as DOMAIN, and often refers to the same machine, but does not have to be identical. </dd> </dl> <p> As a real-life example, if you are interested in the mailman-users list, you'd make the following substitutions: LISTNAME=mailman-users, DOMAIN=python.org, WEBSERVER=mail.python.org. As such, for the <span class="email">mailman-users@python.org</span> mailing list, the list information page can be found at the URL <a class="url" href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users</a>. (These, unlike most of the examples given in this document, are real addresses.) <p> Most lists will have this information stored in the <span class="mailheader">List-*:</span> headers. 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