Tor Arntsen <tor(a)spacetec.no> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
 On Dec 30,  1:02, Martin Buchholz wrote:
 [...]
> Updated 
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/README.  That file used
> to claim that the subscribe request to xemacs-beta-request(a)xemacs.org
> should go in the Subject instead of the body.  That's not true, is it? 
It is not true.  Requests should go in the body of the message and the 
Subject: line should be blank[1].
> Or at least not any more?
 [...] 
 I thought the new method of subscribing to xemacs-beta was 
 subscribe xemacs-beta [yourï¼ address]
 in the body of a mail to majordomo(a)xemacs.org? 
Correct.
Footnotes: 
[1]  That's a dumb default (IMNSHO).