From:	Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe AT ponle DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Subscribing to djgpp-workers
Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2003 07:24:10 +0100
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I have failed to subscribe to that mailing list.

I connected to http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mailing-lists/subscribe.html
I clicked on "Do it", having filled in the form as follows:
Enter your e-mail address:  I gave mine

Select the list you are interested in:  DJGPP Worker's List

Select the operation to perform:  Add me to the list

I got the following response from
http://www.delorie.com/listserv/listserv.cgi
Mailing List Command Results
Add is no longer supported due to abuse. Please email listserv AT delorie DOT com instead.

I looked for similar problems in news:/comp.os.msdos.gjgpp at
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8

As a result, I sent two emails to listserv AT delorie DOT com. Neither had a
subject, both had the "From:" address shown above. The texts were
add djgpp-workers
and
subscribe djgpp-workers

Neither provoked a response. What does "Please email
listserv AT delorie DOT com instead." actually mean. That is, how do I
stimulate listserv AT delorie DOT com to give me a response - even if it is the
British abusive phrase represented by the NATO message: Foxtrot Oscar. I
ROT-13 the text as "Shpx Bss!".

I don't aim to do much more than kibitz in djgpp-workers. I DO have a
trivial patch for the make source archive (I'm too lazy to quote the
URL). I hope to analyse a more significant problem. I won't bore this
audience with it.
-- 
Walter Briscoe

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