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 <h1>Mailing Lists</h1>
 <p>We maintain two Slurm mailing lists:</p>
 <ul>
-<li><b>slurm-announce@schedmd.com</b> is designated for communications about SLURM releases
-[low traffic].</li>
-<li><b>slurm-dev@schedmd.com</b> is designated for communications to SLURM developers
+<li><b>slurm-announce@schedmd.com</b> is designated for communications about
+Slurm releases. The ability to post to this list is restricted to a few Slurm
+developers [low traffic].</li>
+<li><b>slurm-dev@schedmd.com</b> is designated for communications to Slurm
+developers and is typically used by Slurm users or system administrators.
+Any person subscribed to this mailing list may post to it.
 [high traffic at times].</li>
 </ul>
 <p>To subscribe to either list, vist the link below, sign up and get involved!<p>
@@ -18,6 +21,6 @@ You can likewise unsubscribe from either list at the same link.
 and<br>
 <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/slurm-devel">http://groups.google.com/group/slurm-devel</a></p>
 
-<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 3 April 2013</p>
+<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 5 August 2014</p>
 
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