From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 04:43:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA11747 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 04:43:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA11741 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 04:43:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zxsIJ-0001t8-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:42:39 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA00327 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:42:35 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04327; Wed, 6 Jan 99 12:42:33 GMT Message-Id: <36935A32.4462BAE1@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:42:26 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Majordomo & subscribing to lists Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Can someone explain this pls? I sent ``subscribe mozilla@freebsd.org'' to majordomo and got the following: >>>> subscribe mozilla@freebsd.org You tried to "subscribe" to a closed list "mozilla" at Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG. We have some closed lists: Some lists that are aliases for other lists. The list "test" is an alias for "freebsd-test". If you tried to subscribe a list of this type, please subscribe to "freebsd-mozilla" instead. which I take it means my request was rejected because it is a closed list. (BTW, I thought _all_ lists had an alias without the ``freebsd-''). As instructed in the last line I sent ``subscribe freebsd-mozilla@freebsd.org'' and got back the confirmation message: If you really want this action to be taken, please send the following commands (exactly as shown) back to "Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG": auth c87b0809 subscribe freebsd-mozilla marko@uk.radan.com sent it as instructed. Then I received: >>>> auth c87b0809 subscribe freebsd-mozilla marko@uk.radan.com **** Address already subscribed to freebsd-mozilla So what does all this mean? Was my first request rejected or not (I only received and sent one confirmation). How can I be subscribed already if I only sent the one confirmation? Is ``mozilla'' and ``freebsd-mozilla'' the same list and are they closed? -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message