I see that a lot of people are getting the subscription process to work all
right, but some people are having trouble. Remember, you haven’t succeeded
until you receive a welcome letter from the new list.
Make sure that the address that you want to use to subscribe to the list is
EXACTLY the same as the one you are using to send the message to Majordomo.
As the saying goes, close only counts in horseshoes. Computers are
literal-minded to a fault. If you receive a message that says that your
subscription has been sent on “for approval” it means that you have an
address mismatch problem. Check the addresses you are using and try again.
If you are getting back a message from majordomo that is full of
gobbledygook and “command not recognized” nonsense, there are a couple of
things that you can try. Try changing your e-mail sending format to plain
text so that the HTML coding doesn’t get in the way and garble up your
communications with the subscription utility. Usually HTML doesn’t cause a
problem unless you are trying to post a message to the list, but sometimes
it interferes with the command that you are trying to send to majordomo.
Once in a while the freemail footer that is automatically attached to some
e-mail accounts gets tangled up with the command line that you are trying to
send. The way to fix this is to send the message like this:
auth 1234567 subscribe x300 youremailaddress@yourisp.com
end
Putting that word “end” at the beginning of the next line after the command
line tells the computer not to bother with anything else that comes after
that word.
If you have a really long e-mail address, you can avoid some wrap problems
by enclosing the whole command line in brackets like this:
<auth 1234567 subscribe x300 youremailaddress@yourisp.com>
I don’t want anybody to drive themselves crazy trying to get this to work.
If you’re having problems subscribing, just get in touch with me. Be
prepared to send me the error messages that you’ve received so that I can
tell what has gone wrong.
Patsy Lokensgard
Modern List Administrator
patsy@jag-lovers.org