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["Eric Sandall" <sandalle AT hellhound.homeip.net>]

Ryan Abrams said:
> I have reported it to ibiblio a few times now. The response i have
> gotten is below:
>
> --begin quote--
>
> What you are seeing are mailman's bounces.  I'm seeing them in the logs
> and they look like this.
>
> Aug 04 23:32:00 2002 (11318) sm-spell-submit: Mailcmd rejected
>         Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
>         From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
> <MAILER-DAEMON AT happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu>        Reason: Probable
> bounced subscribe-confirmation
>
> the lists are operating properly, i've checked the aliases.  make sure
> you are giving the list an address you are able to reply as and recieve
> mail from when signing for a list.  This should take care of the issue.
>
> --end quote--
>
> I am bcc-ing the ibiblio people on this. Hopefully the fact that several
> people are getting issues will make them reconsider the issue.
>
> -Ryan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Stitt" <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
> To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] problem with spell-submit mailing list?
>
>
>> i had the same problem, reported it many times <yells> but no one
>> seems to listen </yells> i got on the list by sending the reply to
>> sm-spell-submit-admin instead of sm-spell-submit-request (isnt that
>> intuitive?)
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:11:41AM -0500, Roger Shaffer Jr. wrote:
>> > I recently tried to join the spell-submit mailing list and recieved
>> the email for confirmation.  Unfortunately, replying to
>> > sm-discuss-request AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> > to finalize the subscription bounced with the following message:
>> >
>> >   sm-spell-submit-request AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> >     SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
>> > TO:<sm-spell-submit-request AT lists.ibiblio.org>:
>> >     host lists.ibiblio.org [152.2.210.119]: 550 5.1.1
>> > <sm-spell-submit-request AT lists.ibiblio.org>... User unknown
>> >
>> > I also had submitted a spell for allin1, a WindowMaker/FluxBox
>> dockapp that has a bunch of monitors, but it has yet to show up in
>> the archive even though it was submitted almost 24 hrs ago.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts?  Is there just something I'm missing?
>> >
>> > Rog

I just tried Andrew's method (-admin instead of -request) and I received a
message saying that I am now subscribed to sm-spell-submit.  Yeah!  :)

-One of Three

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