Why my work e-mail unacceptable

[jfdutcher]

The 1st response from the attempt to subscribe with my work e-mail seems promising:
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# John_Dutcher@URMC.Rochester.edu has requested that you be subscribed rebol mailing list.  
#
# To subscribe, reply to this message, leaving the message body # intact, or send the following lines in e-mail to # lists@rebol.com:

// job
appsub rebol John_Dutcher@URMC.Rochester.edu \ 40D09600:3DBA.1:eroby // eoj

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Ecartis v1.0.0 - job execution complete.
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but after 'replying' as directed, the following always results:
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Request received for list 'rebol' via request address.

>> appsub rebol John_Dutcher@URMC.Rochester.edu   40D09600:3DBA.1:eroby
>> // eoj
Invalid number of parameters.

>> ---
Unknown command.

>> Ecartis v1.0.0 - job execution complete.
Unknown command.
 

[CarlRead]

There's been mailing-list problems.  See...

http://www.rebol.org/

So it may be due to just when you attempted to subcsribe.  Try again, and if you still have problems, mention it again here and I'll ask about it on the list.
 

[CarlRead]

Well - I see you've made a post to the list, if not with your Rochester email address, so I guess you can ask yourself if needs be.

[Sunanda]

Also, for future generations reading this, REBOL.org was carrying a front-page notice about the Great June-2004 Mailing List Outage.

But now it's fixed (we hope), the best place to go for advice on joining it is:

http://www.rebol.com/discussion.html

[jfdutcher]

I wanted to use the work e-mail just because it saves logging into the 'net and going to yahoo.com for retrieval of my personal e-mail (which is an address that rebol-request honored without problems).  It just occurred to me
that my user.r file does not have good values for SMTP AND POP (because I don't know them for my work exchange server).....yet it doesn't seem as though that would matter since I would expect the e-mail to be handled by MS Exchange, our network client in this case, not Rebol.
YET........the sign-up page says; make sure you have your mail server values set in your user.r file...H-m-m-m-m  ??