Novice problem with world writable directories error

[Greg Lawrence <gwl1 @ cornell . edu>]

Hello All:

The bane of novice majordomo users is the permissions glitch. I've got 
mine. For a test list, this is part of  the error message:

550 :include:/usr/local/majordom/lists/test... Cannot open 
/usr/local/majordom/lists/test: World writable directory
Message delivered to mailing list test-out
554 test-out... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
Message delivered to mailing list owner-test@bigdaddy.mannlib.cornell.edu

System facts:

MD 1.94
Redhat 6.2
perl 5.00503


I've checked majordomo using the config-test. I did the test as a user 
other then root or majordom. The test checked out ok.

I've checked the FAQ. Item 2.12 - I get "aliasing/forwarding loop broken" 
suggests problems with the directory permissions. This is the symptom my 
system is experiencing. At this time my directory permissions are:

755 root:root /
755 root:root /usr
755 root:root /usr/local
777 majordom:majordom /usr/local/majordomo
777 majordom:majordom /usr/local/majordomo/lists

At this time, I'm assuming my directories are world writable. Can anyone 
suggest another approach to this problem?

Thanks.

Greg