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26 Oct 1993 09:47:03 EST from LISTSERV give-and-take forum
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1993 09:47:03 EST Linda Feeney
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> I did find a way to automate a 'login' to each account and send
>the SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE command for users of VMS Mail.
You should never do this, not unless the amount of delete accounts is
small enough. If you inject (say) 5,000 netwide signoff jobs into the
LISTSERV network, people are going to start screaming about the resource
usage on their system, especially if more than a handful of sites do
this. The result is that people will modify the code to ignore these
requests, and I will have to remove the capability from the next version.
If you are running MX V3.3 or PMDF V4.2, LISTSERV will delete the
recipients automatically. Otherwise the best is to wait for the list
owners to delete the recipients on their own. The cost to your system of
bouncing off these messages is a droplet in the ocean when compared to
the cost of running 5000 jobs with a global lookup for 272 other
institutions.
Eric
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