Yes. We have some other (administrative lists by faculty) that we use Oracle to
store the members. I see no advantage to using Oracle, unless you either
store more information besides the e-mail and name, and then can enable more
flexibility when sending mail (we don't have lsmtp) by different criteria on a
list basis, or, if you allocate DISTRIBUTE capabilities and can actually have
all your members in one table, and in fact create an 'on-the-fly' sublists
according to your Select sentence.

Moshe

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Feather Lacy wrote:

> Do you keep those lists as standard listserv flat files?
>
> Feather
>
> At 09:18 PM 5/13/2002 +0300, Barak Moshe wrote:
> >We name the lists by Faculty code and course number and semester:
> >
> >e.g EE123456W-l for course 123456 at the Electrical eng faculty Winter
> >semester.
> >We add/delete daily, students enrolled to the course through the Graduate and
> >Under Graduate school offices. It works very well ...
> >
> >Moshe
> >
> >On Mon, 13 May 2002, Bill Verity wrote:
> >
> > > I'm curious about what other sitesdo with lists for classes.Here at
> > Penn State we normally:
> > >
> > > 1. Set up list for one semester.After the semester is over, we delete
> > the lists and archives after reminding the owners that we are doing it.
> > >
> > > 2. Require the owners to populate the lists.They can get the addresses
> > and names on the web from a page that the registrar maintains.
> > >
> > > 3. Name the lists with course name, number and section.We begin local
> > lists with an L-, so a typical name might be L-ANTHY100-2.
> > >
> > > How do other schools handle this task?I'm curious whether you put the
> > semester and year in the name - SP02-ANTHY100-2.
> > >
> > > Do you offer to populate the lists?If so, do you keep them up to date
> > as drop/adds occur.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > BE ALERT!!!!(The world needs more lerts ...)
> > >
> > > Bill Verity - 814-865-4758Fax: 814-863-7049
> > > 215A Computer Building - Information Technology Services, Penn State
> > University
> > > At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)
> > >
>