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Mon, 20 Feb 1995 13:33:35 EST |
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L-Soft international, Inc. |
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Netwide delete is no longer supported. See the following from the
release notes for version 1.8a.
8. As announced in the 1.7f release notes, support for netwide DELETE
jobs has been removed (netwide SIGNOFF is still supported). Sites
running LMail, MX V3.3 or PMDF V4.2 need not worry about submitting
netwide DELETE jobs for expired accounts as their mail system takes
care of that automatically. Sites running older versions of MX or
PMDF should upgrade to the current version. The specifications of the
LMail/LISTSERV delivery error format are available from L-Soft
support.
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* Warning: do NOT use netwide SIGNOFF instead! *
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Support for netwide DELETE has been removed because this method of
broadcasting information about the deletion of hundreds of of
thousands of local accounts every semester to the entire network does
not scale up and placed an unbearable load on the hosts providing the
LISTSERV service. Do not modify your procedures to use a series of
netwide SIGNOFF jobs instead, as the overhead would be even higher.
Netwide SIGNOFF remains for the convenience of individual users who
know for a fact that they are subscribed to mailing lists, and for
emergencies. If the LISTSERV backbone is flooded with tens of
thousands of "preventive" netwide SIGNOFF jobs from users who have
never been subscribed to any list, the overhead will be such that
there will be no alternative but to remove netwide SIGNOFF
permanently.
9. As a corollary to the removal of netwide DELETE and the conversion of
the DELETE command to PASCAL, support for the "DD=" syntax has been
removed. This syntax was needed only to support netwide DELETE in a
more efficient manner. Simply issue multiple DELETE commands if you
need to remove multiple users from a list. The setup overhead with
PASCAL command is much lower and there is no noticeable performance
impact unless hundreds of users are to be removed.
--Nathan
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