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Core-talk is a mailing list for use by the EPICS developers who maintain and add features to EPICS Base, although anyone can subscribe to it. See below for subscription instructions.

Please post questions about EPICS-related topics to the main tech-talk mailing list, not here.

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Subscribing to Core-talk

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RSS Subscription

You can be notified about the arrival of new messages at the list archive without having to subscribe, using one of our two RSS feeds.

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Visiting those links in a regular web browser won't show anything particularly useful; if you aren't familiar with RSS read this. I use and recommend Feedly for reading RSS feeds (it also has apps for both Android and iOS), but there are other readers available, built into web browsers, as stand-alone programs or apps, or purely online.

Note that the full text feed is new and may break in some circumstances, but it seems to work pretty well.

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