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-2.2 Administrative Roles</A>
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+1.3 A List's Web Pages</A>
 </H2>
 
 <P>
-There are two primary administrative roles for each mailing list, a
-list owner and a list moderator.  A list owner is allowed to change
-various settings of the list, such as the privacy and archiving
-policies, the content filtering settings, etc.  The list owner is also
-allowed to subscribe or invite members, unsubscribe members, and
-change any member's subscription options.
+Every mailing list is also accessible by a number of web pages.  Note
+that the exact urls is configurable by the site administrator, so they
+may be different than what's described below.  We'll describe the most
+common default configuration, but check with your site administrator
+or hosting service for details.
+
+<P>
+Mailman provides a set of web pages that list members use to get
+information about the list, or manage their membership options.  There
+are also list archive pages, for browsing an online web-based archive
+of the list traffic.  These are described in more detail in the GNU
+Mailman user's manual.
 
 <P>
-The list moderator on the other hand, is only allowed to approve or
-reject postings and subscription requests.  The list moderator can
-also do things like clear a member's moderation flag, or add an
-address to a list of approved non-member posters.
+Mailman also provides a set of pages for configuring an individual
+list, as well as a set of pages for disposing of posting and
+subscription requests.
 
 <P>
-Normally, the list owner and list moderator are the same person.  In
-fact, the list owner can always do all the tasks a list moderator can
-do.  Access to both the owner's configuration pages, and the
-moderation pages are protected by the same password.  However, if the
-list owner wants to delegate posting and subscription approval
-authority to other people, a separate list moderator password can be
-set, giving moderators access to the approval pages, but not the
-configuration pages.  In this setup, list owners can still moderate
-the list, of course.
+For a mailing list called <var>mylist</var> hosted at the domain
+<var>lists.example.com</var>, you would typically access the administrative
+pages by going to <code>http://lists.example.com/mailman/admin/mylist</code>.
+The first time you visit this page, you will be presented with a login
+page, asking for the list owner's password.  When you enter the
+password, Mailman will store a session cookie in your browser, so you
+don't have to re-authenticate for every action you want to take.  This
+cookie is stored only until you exit your browser.
 
 <P>
-In the sections that follow, we'll often use the terms list owner and
-list administrator interchangably, meaning both roles.  When
-necessary, we'll distinguish the list moderator explicitly.
+To access the administrative requests page, you'd visit
+<code>http://lists.example.com/mailman/admindb/mylist</code> (note the
+<em>admindb</em> url as opposed to the <em>admin</em> url).  Again, the
+first time you visit this page, you'll be presented with a login page,
+on which you can enter either the list moderator password or the list
+owner password.  Again, a session cookie is dropped in your browser.
+Note also that if you've previously logged in as the list owner, you
+do not need to re-login to access the administrative requests page.
 
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