diff --git a/en/register.sgml b/en/register.sgml
index a2e448882f..55a7f8438e 100644
--- a/en/register.sgml
+++ b/en/register.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
-<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/register.sgml,v 1.19 2002/03/16 08:17:58 murray Exp $">
+<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/register.sgml,v 1.20 2002/04/01 13:39:05 ceri Exp $">
 <!ENTITY title "Register">
 <!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
 ]>
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@
 
     <center><font size="4">Subscribe to the announce@FreeBSD.org and
 	security-announce@FreeBSD.org mailing lists.</font></center>
+
+    <p>The announce@FreeBSD.org mailing list is used to communicate important
+      Project events, such as new releases, milestone events and security
+      advisories.</p>
+
+    <p>Security advisories are also communicated via the
+      security-notifications@FreeBSD.org mailing list (note that
+      announce@FreeBSD.org is a superset of this list, and so there is no need
+      to subscribe to both).</p>
     
     <form action="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/reg.cgi" method="post">
       <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="majordomo@FreeBSD.org"><br>
