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 <b>Bacula</b> has a number of email lists which are described below with
 links to subscribe, unsubscribe, or modify your account.
-For general information on these lists, please see
+For general information subscribing to or unsubscribing from these lists, please see
 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=50727">Bacula Mailing Lists at SourceForge</a>.
-<p>For email archives see below.</p>
+<p>For email archives see the bottom of this page.</p>
+
+Source Forge has rather strict email requirements in order to
+try to minimize the large quantity of spam that the lists receive every day.
+These are mesures that they have implemented, and over which we have no
+control.
+<p>
+If you are having problems subscribing or sending email to a Bacula list,
+please, read the following: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6695&group_id=1">
+SourceForge.net: Email Problems: Spam, Bounces, Unreceived Messages</a>, then
+if you are still having problems send a support request to Source Forge.
+Source Forge requires the person affected submit his/her own support request;
+the Bacula project is not permitted to do so on your behalf.  
+<p>
+One item they do not mention in the above referenced document is grey listing.
+If you are using grey listing, you are likely to have problems with the Source
+Forge email lists.  The solution is to whitelist their sending IPs.  You might
+want to whitelist their whole zone (66.35.250.0/24) as I (Kern) have done, but
+if you are more conservative, I found only two of their IPs were sending email
+(66.35.250.225 and 66.35.250.206).  If you grey list individual Source Forge
+IP addresses, please be sure to check your logs to verify the addresses they
+use for you.
 
 <h3>bacula-announce</h3>
 The <b>bacula-announce</b> list is a read only low volume list for those
@@ -52,7 +73,7 @@ you must replace the <b>at</b> with an @ symbol.
 <h3>bacula-devel</h3>
 The <b>bacula-devel</b> list is for those users who wish to
 communicate directly with the developers. The email volume
-is currently quite low, but can vary.
+is usually quite low (several emails per day), but can vary.
 Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed
 before you can send email to this list.