Re: Subscription Problems

gosh, what an avid reader.

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 02:30:26AM +0400, Alexander Savenkov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> some notes about the public mailing lists.
> 
> I took all the data from http://lists.w3.org/.
> 
> The following addresses (marked with subscribe/unsubscribe links) do
> not reply when subscribing:
> www-wca-request@w3.org
> www-vlib-announce-request@w3.org
> www-tv-request@w3.org
> www-test-request@w3.org
> www-speech-request@w3.org
> www-servers-request@w3.org
> www-rdb-request@w3.org
> www-push-request@w3.org
> www-proxy-request@w3.org
> www-next-request@w3.org
> www-multimedia-request@w3.org
> www-multicast-request@w3.org
> www-logging-request@w3.org
> www-history-request@w3.org
> www-demographics-request@w3.org
> www-announce-request@w3.org
> www-amaya-developers-request@w3.org
> w3c-wai-wg-request@w3.org
> w3c-wai-ui-request@w3.org
> w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org
> pics-info-request@w3.org
> ietf-tls-request@w3.org
> ietf-swap-request@w3.org
> 
> The following addresses (marked with subscribe/unsubscribe links)
> return "550 unknown user":
> www-xkms-ws-request@w3.org
> www-lib-survey-request@w3.org
> w3c-math-erb-request@w3.org
> pso-discuss-request@w3.org
> ietf-http-wg-old-request@w3.org
> 
> For the following lists no subscribe/unsubscribe links are provided
> but when I tried the -request addresses, I got subscribed:
> www-voice@w3.org
> www-html-editor@w3.org
> w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> public-ws-media-types@w3.org
> public-webapps-cdf-discuss@w3.org
> public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
> public-esw-desc@w3.org
> public-esw-news@w3.org
> public-cwm-talk@w3.org
> public-cwm-bugs@w3.org
> public-cwm-announce@w3.org
> Perhaps there are others (e.g., the www-dom-request address doesn't
> respond at all).
> 
> For the following lists no subscribe/unsubscribe links are provided
> and unlike the other such lists they don't remain silent when the
> -request address is mailed, they return "550 unknown user":
> www-p3p-public-comments-request@w3.org
> www-lib-bugs-request@w3.org
> wai-report-bounces-request@w3.org (the weirdest name and archive)
> ietf-discuss-request@w3.org
> ietf-charsets-request@w3.org
> 
> If anyone is going to fix those please send me a list of the addresses
> that will be available for subscription.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexander.
> 
> P.S. Is there a way to learn when there's a new list available?
> Perhaps something like list-announce@w3.org could be set up.
> -- 
>   Alexander Savenkov                            http://www.xmlhack.ru/
>   savenkov@xmlhack.ru             http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/

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