## Basic list management
-Mailing lists at MIT come in too varieties --- Moira and Mailman. Moira lists don't have spam filtering, moderation, built-in archiving, or a number of other features. Mailman has far more features, but mostly requires administration through a web interface (which many people dislike) and Mailman lists cannot be used for access control (in AFS, or to own other lists).
+Mailing lists at MIT come in two varieties --- Moira and Mailman. Moira lists don't have spam filtering, moderation, built-in archiving, or a number of other features. Mailman has far more features, but mostly requires administration through a web interface (which many people dislike) and Mailman lists cannot be used for access control (in AFS, or to own other lists).
Mailman lists can be administered through the [Mailman web interface](https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/).
-For people uncomfortable with the command line, the standard tool for Moira list management is [Webmoira](https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/). It's reasonably straightforward and has decent built-in help. It doesn't support membership ACLs, though (which allow giving somebody permission to modify a list's membership but nothing else about it).
+For people uncomfortable with the command line, the standard tool for Moira list management is [WebMoira](https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/). It's reasonably straightforward and has decent built-in help. It doesn't support membership ACLs, though (which allow giving somebody permission to modify a list's membership but nothing else about it).
At the command line, the usual list management tool is `blanche`. Use `blanche listname` to view the members of `listname`, or `blanche listname -i` to see the owner, description, and various other pieces of useful information. Use `man blanche` to see additional documentation.
Most list queries are more convenient to make using `blanche`. Two big exceptions are `get_ace_use` (`gaus`) and `get_lists_of_member` (`glom`). The former allows you to see what objects (lists, machines, filesystems, etc.) in Moira an object (list, user, etc.) controls. The latter allows you to what lists an object is on.
-You can use them like `qy gaus rlist sipb-acl`. That finds what objects the list (`list`) sipb-acl (`sipb-acl`) can recursively (`r`) administer (`gaus`). The third argument (`sipb-acl`) should be the name of the object that you're trying to examine. The second argument (`list`) is in two parts. The second part should indicate what type of object the third argument is --- `list`, `user`, or `kerberos`. That can be prefixed with `r` to indicate that we're interested in control via another list, or left alone to indicate that we only care about direct ownership. Finally, the first argument should be should be the query (`gaus` to what something controls or `glom' to find what lists something is on).
+You can use them like `qy gaus rlist sipb-acl`. That finds what objects the list (`list`) sipb-acl (`sipb-acl`) can recursively (`r`) administer (`gaus`). The third argument (`sipb-acl`) should be the name of the object that you're trying to examine. The second argument (`list`) is in two parts. The second part should indicate what type of object the third argument is --- `list`, `user`, or `kerberos`. That can be prefixed with `r` to indicate that we're interested in control via another list, or left alone to indicate that we only care about direct ownership. Finally, the first argument should be the query (`gaus` to what something controls or `glom' to find what lists something is on).
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