Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:14:06 -0500
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>Is there any way to bulk add users AND options from Listserv subscription list to a database subscription list.
Here's what the Developer's Guide has to say on the topic:
| 4.5.7. Preserving options when migrating from non-DBMS to DBMS lists
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| When migrating an existing (standard) LISTSERV mailing list to the DBMS
| type, note that it is possible to preserve existing user options without
| having to figure out the bit values for every user's existing options by
| hand.
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| A standard LISTSERV subscriber entry is a 100-column string, of which the
| first eighty characters are the subscriber's e-mail address and "real
| name" field. Columns 81-100 contain an encoded string that holds the
| various user option settings, for instance:
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| 3AEAQABMcBMe////
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| If you take columns 81-100 from an existing list file, insert a semicolon
| after the first character, and store this in the option field, all the
| settings will be successfully migrated. So for instance if you have
| '3AEAQABMcBMe////' in columns 81-100, you store '3;AEAQABMcBMe////' in
| the option field. Note that the column value is not automatically
| converted to '4;' format until the value is updated, ie, until a change
| is made to the user options or LISTSERV otherwise updates the value.
| LISTSERV will then use '4;' format when updating the value, but until
| then it will remain as it was and LISTSERV will be able to use it without
| any trouble. Do not change the value of the first character from 3 to 4
| when migrating as this is guaranteed to cause breakage.
I hope this is helpful to you.
Thanks,
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Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/
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