EDIE-CECTAL

[Beverly Flanigan]

I got the same error message, and when I added my name I got another error
message, saying "No request was given"!  Several such exchanges produced
nothing but machine-generated responses, and I still don't know if I'm on
the list or not.



At 04:20 PM 7/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Andrea Vine posted a reference to the English Dialect Information Exchange,
>evidently quoted from their welcome message:
>
>>>>
>Contributions and subscriptions are welcomed from people of an academic
>background in Linguistics, dialect societies and individuals with an
>interest in dialectology. If you want to send a message to the forum,
>send it to:
>
>EDIE-CECTAL at sheffield.ac.uk
>
>If you want to subscribe, do not write to the forum, but to:
>
>listproc at sheffield.ac.uk
>
>with the message:
>
>subscribe EDIE-CECTAL
><<<
>
>I followed the directions precisely and got an error message. I am cc-ing
this
>note to the listserver's problem address.
>
>>>>
>
>Please respond to listproc at sheffield.ac.uk
>
>To:   Mark Mandel/Dragon Systems USA at Dragon Systems USA
>cc:   edie-cectal-request at sheffield.ac.uk
>Subject:  Error Condition Re: Invalid request
>
>
>
>
>>SUBSCRIBE EDIE-CECTAL
>
>No name given to SUBSCRIBE
>
>Syntax: subscribe <list> <Your Name>
>
>Report any problems to 'edie-cectal-request at sheffield.ac.uk'.
>For a list of the available requests send a message to
>          listproc at sheffield.ac.uk
>with the word
>          help
>in the body of the message.
>
>PS: Any subsequent requests that you might have submitted have been ignored.
>