Re: mailing-list site with wrong info?

From: Rob Garth <r.garth@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:41:49 +1100 (EST)

It doesn't need to be in the subject field. I sent a blank message with
only the word subscribe- and it worked just fine.

Rob Garth
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I have great faith in fools: Self confidence my friends call it.
  -- Edgar Allan Poe

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, arnee wrote:

> I just wanna bring this attention to the maintaner of
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mailing-lists.html. So, if anyone here who
> can pass this on, please do so.
>
> The problem is that the information of subscribing to the lists are
> misleading as I found out when subscribing to this list. The site says:
>
> To subscribe
> Send the word ``subscribe'' in a message to
> squid-users-request@ircache.net
>
> To unsubscribe
> Send the word ``unsubscribe'' in a message to
> squid-users-request@ircache.net
>
> This tells me to send the word "in a message" not in the Subject: field.
> So, after doing so... i recieved a message not being subscribe and
> finally finding out that it needs to be in the Subject: field.
>
> If the info in the site is correct... maybe there is something wrong
> with the mailing list server (majordomo)??
>
> ---
> arnee
>
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