If you are doing bulk-adds by email, set it up as a job, rather than
as a series of independent commands. With LISTSERV 1.8d (perhaps with
some earlier versions, as well) the list owner does not need to
specify the subscriber name when adding a subscriber to the list.

In the template below, replace "LISTNAME" with the name of your list,
replace "XXXXXXXX" with your personal LISTSERV password (1.8c or
later) or the list password (1.8b or earlier), and replace the bogus
addresses with your subscriber addresses. If your email software
appends a signature file to outbound messages, be sure to disable
that feature when sending a message to a LISTSERV server.

----- begin job template -----
QUIET ADD LISTNAME DD=X IMPORT PW=XXXXXXXX
//X DD *
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/*
----- end job template -----

If your list is hosted at a site running LISTSERV 1.8c or later, and
if the LISTSERV web interface is installed and running, you should be
able to do bulk-adds from the list management web page. Generally,
the URL for the list management web page will be in the form:

     http://host.domain.tld/cgi-bin/wa?LMGT1=listname

where "host.domain.tld" is the LISTSERV host name and "listname" is
the name of your list. You will need to register your address and set
a personal LISTSERV password before you can use list management web
page.

You can find all this - and more - information in the QuickStart Guide
for New List Owners <http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/qs/qs.html>.

--
Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
University of Notre Dame
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