ASF Mailing List Self-subscription failed

[stillalex]

trying to subscribe to a list fails:

Submitting subscribe request:
{
  "version": 3,
  "availid": "stillalex",
  "addr": "stillalex@apache.org",
  "listkey": "jackrabbit-oak-dev",
  "member_p": false,
  "chair_p": false
}

svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subreq/ /tmp/d20170612-23348-zuwdcq
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subreq'
svn: E175013: Access to '/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subreq' forbidden
svn add stillalex-jackrabbit-oak-dev.json
svn: E155007: '/tmp/d20170612-23348-zuwdcq' is not a working copy
svn commit stillalex-jackrabbit-oak-dev.json --message 'jackrabbit-oak-dev@ += stillalex'
svn: E155007: '/tmp/d20170612-23348-zuwdcq/stillalex-jackrabbit-oak-dev.json' is not a working copy

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