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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:10:24 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        tweten@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Majordomo Problems?
Message-ID:  <20000808151024.B250@parish>
In-Reply-To: <398F9314.B0A4F2A3@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:56:52PM -0700
References:  <200008072257.PAA07520@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> <398F9314.B0A4F2A3@urx.com>

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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:56:52PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

One thing that tripped me up once is that whilst you can *post* to
questions@freebsd.org (for example) you *must* subscribe to
freebsd-questions.
^^^^^^^^

> Kent
> 
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