[Mailman-Users] The purpose of the Mailman list

[Jon Carnes]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 03:00, Thomas von Hassel wrote:
> Maybe im just blind, but what is the purpose of the mandatory "mailman" 
> list on a mailman system ?
> 
> /thomas
> 
It gives Mailman a standard email address to drop off errors/warnings
etc.  Folks don't check their logs very often if at all, so some of
those errors/warnings now go to the "mailman" alias as well as to the
logs.  It's what folks asked for.