Majordomo Help:

Below are the most common reasons that majordomo rejects subscription requests...

YOU HAVE SET YOUR EMAIL SYSTEM TO SEND FORMATTED TEXT
Majordomo does not like formatted or marked up email (e.g. where you specify the font color, face, size, etc.). Formatted email can cause majordomo to reject administrative requests because it can't figure out what you are asking (it sees html tags on the line and thinks it is being fed garbage). Secondly, email netiquette provides that the sender should send plain text, and allow the recipient to select for themselves what size and face font they prefer with their email preferences. If you are sending formatted text, switch it off and resend your command to majordomo.

YOU ARE INCLUDING A QUOTE CHARACTER ON THE SAME LINE AS THE REQUEST
Most email programs insert a "carat" character (such as ">") before each line of the original email message to indicate that line is being quoted. When you hit reply and send your administrative command to majordomo, make sure the authorization line does NOT contain this character, or majordomo will reject the message

YOU HAVE SPECIFIED THE WRONG LIST NAME
Often when people attempt to subscribe to majordomo they mistype the name of the mail list. There should be no spaces within the name of any lists. For example, make sure your authorization message does not say "subscribe first grade john@abc.com" when you mean "subscribe first_grade john@abc.com". Other extraneous text on this line may also cause majordomo to become confused and reject the request.

YOU ARE TRYING TO UNSUBSCRIBE THE WRONG ADDRESS
Often when people subscribe to our system, they have more than one email address, or it can be written in more than one way (e.g. john@mail.abc.com and john@abc.com). Majordomo is very picky and can only unsubscribe the exact address that you request, if it is not exactly right, you will not be able to remove the address. Occasionally people have multiple addresses pointing to the same mail account (known as an email "alias") and they later forget that they have used the alias to subscribe to the system. Please try to unsubscribe every address you may have subscribed to our system before requesting help from the list administrators. If you absolutely cannot remember what other address you've subscribed, or cannot succeed in unsubscribing an address you know has been subscribed, please forward to us a copy of email you have received from the mailing list. Remember to include the header information (the cryptic lines before the email which indicates the stops the email took before reaching you). With this information we can usually quickly identify which address you have subscribed and remove the address from the network.

HELP! I STILL can't get off this crazy list!
Occasionally our subscribers find that in spite of using the above unsubscribe module, they are still receiving list mail. This is usually because they are subscribed under a different address than the one they are trying to unsubscribe. Often you can determine which address is receiving mail based upon the "headers" (info at the top of your list mail) but sometimes you cannot tell.

If you find that you continue to receive list mail after using the "unsubscribe all mailrings" option above, please try to remember any additional or alternate addresses you use that you may have subscribed and forgotten about. Use the form above to unsubscribe these addresses as well.

If you have unsubscribed every address you think could possibly point to you, then it's time to write to us at feedback@teachers.net and ask for help. Forward to us one complete copy of any list mail you receive, and we'll make sure that that address is removed from all Teachers.Net Mailrings. :o)