I get this from people all the time. I also get messages that they have
been confirmed (and are getting messages) and then still get this
failure message. I also am told about signing off (and receiving
confirmation of getting off) only to keeo receiving messages. When I
check, they are still there.

I've always put it down to user error. If someone knows differently, I'd
appreciate knowing about it.

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> Has anyone else run into this problem which one would-be subscriber
> sent
> to me this morning?  Our list uses CONFIRM but when he tried to
> subscribe
> he received nothing (or so he thought) until he received the notice
> that
> since he had failed to confirm within the specified period his
> subscription request had been cancelled.