Re: PHP Mailing List Issue

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Lamb, Joel <Joel.Lamb@ftr.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:hannes.magnusson@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 2:24 PM > To: Lamb, Joel > Cc: php-webmaster@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] PHP Mailing List Issue > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Lamb, Joel <Joel.Lamb@ftr.com> wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:hannes.magnusson@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 2:16 PM >> To: Lamb, Joel >> Cc: php-webmaster@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] PHP Mailing List Issue >> >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Lamb, Joel <Joel.Lamb@ftr.com> wrote: >>> PHP Web Master >>> >>> I've submitted 3 request to get access to a couple of Mailing List and have not >>> received any emails for confirmation. I've tried both my work and home email addresses with no >>> luck. Is there an issue with the request form, or some other reason I'm not able to join any >>> lists. >>> >>> I've used >>> joel.lamb@ftr.com<mailto:joel.lamb@ftr.com> and >>> joel.lamb@frontier.com<mailto:joel.lamb@frontier.com>. >>> I'm trying to gain access to the Databases and PHP and Installation issues and problems lists. >>> >> >> Joel.Lamb@ftr.com is subscribed to php-install@lists.php.net. >> >> As for php-db@, how did you attempt to subscribe? >> I recommend you try again, sending an empty email to php-db-subscribe@lists.php.net from >> the email address you'd like to subscribe. >> You'll get a reply asking you to confirm you subscription, which you do by replying to >> that mail (just keep the content intact). >> >> -Hannes >> >> Thank you, I thought I could use the form on the List page, but I guess that is not >> correct. I actually looked at existing tickets and found the correct mailing list and did a >> maillist-subscribe and it worked. >> >> Thank You again for your response > > > Are you talking about http://php.net/mailing-lists.php ? > Yes that should work.. Which ticket did you find indicating it didn't? > > When you say you try to do something and that 'something' has over 12 different > methods of execution, it is difficult to understand the problem and 100% impossible to fix, all I > can do (as I did) was suggest a very concrete and step by step instructions to achieve what you > want. > > Who knows. Maybe you tried that method, but wrote the wrong address. > Hence my copy&pastable instructions. > > -Hannes > > Yes, From http://us2.php.net/mailing-lists.php, I choose the > Radio Button in the Normal column and Databases and PHP Row, filled in my email in the text box > below the table and clicked Subscribe. I did this several times and never received an email to > confirm my subscription. I did not find any ticket that said the form did not work, I just reviewed > tickets to find the exact mailing list address so I could use the option of sending an email to the > maillist-subscribe@lists.php.net > us2... Interesting. I'll look into it. -Hannes