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Paul Karagianis <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:01:36 -0400
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Another consideration from one who has had owners use "quiet add" commands
instead of bulk-adds on a badly overloaded VM system, the performance
penalty can bring tears to your eyes.  LSoft can give the right number,
but a bulk-add is at least one order of magnitude faster.

                                                 -Kary

On 26 Oct 99, at 11:57, Joe Clark wrote:

>I've never liked the bulk-add commands, in part because I have never
>gotten them to work.
>
>I have moved several lists from majordomo to Listserv. I started with
>the list of reflector subscribers. It was trivial in BBEdit to
>replace each [Return] with
>
>LISTNAME Subscriber [Return]quiet add LISTNAME<space>

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