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@Yahoo.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@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org