Re: [SQL] Mail problems

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Merrill Oveson wrote:

> Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > during the past hours I had severe problems with email.
> > Somehow hub.org seemed to have forgotten my subscriptions to
> > the PostgreSQL GENERAL, HACKERS and SQL lists.
> >
> > Actually I'm scanning the mail archives for anything of
> > interest. If someone feels I've missed something, give me a
> > kick.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > --
> >
> > #======================================================================#
> > # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #
> > # Let's break this rule - forgive me. #
> > #================================================== JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com #
>
> I haven't been able to subscribe to the digest. I get the following error:
>
> >>>> subscribe pgsql-sql-digest
> Illegal list "pgsql-sql-digest".
> No valid commands processed.
>
> I am subscribed to the general mailing list however.

The whole subscription thing changed over a month ago ... there is no
longer a '-digest' list to subscribe to. Instead, you have to subscribe
to the central list and then change your state to 'digest' ...

I *believe* that:

subscribe-digest pgsql-sql

will do it all in one step now ...

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org