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Fri, 23 May 1997 13:32:41 EDT |
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Hello:
I ocassionally receive complaints from subscribers to individual lists here
that their subscription options are lost. For example, subscriptions
defaulting back to "mail" for people who opted for "nomail". This is
sometimes the result of an error on the subscriber's part or a mistake by the
list's owner. With nearly 500 lists being hosted here, and many more coming,
managing them all from a postmaster point-of-view is becoming quite a chore.
Fortunately, most of the lists' owners here take care of the lot of the
maintenance for their own lists, but dealing with all the problems my
individual list owner encounters is getting to be a full time job for me.
One thing that would really help me out is I could get an audit trail for the
activities on each list. What I have in mind is receiving a daily report
that describes all the adds, deletes, and puts (including who did them and
when they were done) that occurs that day.
This report would no doubt consume a lot of disk space. I also know that the
logs contain all this information, but reading though the logs for several
days worth of activity for a particular list to track down a problem is very
time-consuming. Is there anyone else in this same situation? What do you do
in order to maintain your sanity and manage your many list's smoothly? If
there's anyone that has written a program that provides this kind of report
and you're willing to share it with me, please let me know. I will write my
own monitoring program if I have to, I would definitely like to avoid
reinventing the wheel if I can.
Stan Horwitz
Listserv Postmaster
Temple University
Acknowledge to: OASIS@TEMPLEVM (or VM.TEMPLE.EDU)
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