On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jeff Welch wrote:
> Mary Ellen: You can patch majordomo to enable the newwho command, which
> will enable you to overwrite your current list of subscribers with a list
> that's contained in the email msg to majordomo.
>
> Or you can just save your list of email addresses (one per line) in a TXT
> file, name the text file whatever the list is named *without* a file
> extension (e.g. just "mylist"), and then upload it to the directory where
> your list files live (might be in usr/local/majordomo/Lists).
>
> Either approach has some risk (of losing subscribers) if we're talking
> about a list that has an open subscription policy and tends to have a high
> volume of subscribe/unsubscribe activity. If subscription is closed it
> won't be a problem.
>
> Jeff
A small point, but this last risk may be reduced by building a file of
just the 300+ new subscribers, and using FTP's 'append' command to add it
to the list. That way, you won't lose anyone who subscribed in the interim
between pulling the currrent list, and uploading the revised list. There
is still some risk, I believe, due to the differing ways majordomo and FTP
may perform file locking, so if a subscribe request is executed while the
FTP append is taking place, "the results may be unpredictable". This same
risk is present also, if you use FTP to wholesale replace the list file,
as in the second suggestion.
>
> At 11:37 AM 2/28/99 -0700, Dr. Mary Ellen Nourse wrote:
> >Dear Majordomo Experts
> >
> >What is/are the command(s) to subscribe a list of 300+ people
> >simultaneously to a Majordomo list? I assume that I wouldn't have to
> >subscribe each person individually.
> >
> >--Mary Ellen Nourse
> >Boise, Idaho
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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Rick Green
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