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Date:      Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:56:52 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        tweten@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Majordomo Problems?
Message-ID:  <398F9314.B0A4F2A3@urx.com>
References:  <200008072257.PAA07520@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>

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Dave Tweten wrote:
> 
> It appears that FreeBSD's Majordomo may be in worse shape than I feared when I
> sent in my question about subscribing lists to FreeBSD lists, yesterday.
> 
> Today, I tried to subscribe myself to two more lists, freebsd-announce, and
> freebsd-mobile.  Since I was only trying to subscribe this address, I used the
> bare subscribe command.  I got back a message for each from Majordomo, telling
> me that I should expect another message containing the subscription
> authorization magic string to send back -- but I didn't get the actual
> messages containing the magic strings.
> 
> Since both kinds of message should have been sent to exactly the same e-mail
> address and one kind got through but the other didn't, I conclude that the
> Majordomo subscription mechanism for at least these two lists is broken.
> 
> Am I right?  If so, what's happening to fix Majordomo (and when should I try
> again)?  If not, where did I go wrong?  Thanks for any help.

I would check your spelling because I just tried it and got both
emails back in less than 15 seconds.

The string I sent to majordomo@freebsd.org was

subscribe freebsd-announce

It worked. What can I say. You are probably missing something obvious.
Try sending my string because it worked.

Kent

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