Actually, I miss spoke when I said recipients. All I really need is a count
of members it was sent to. Like in the log. I do have access to that, but I
was being lazy (and my boss wanted an easier way). Before ListServ we were
using a .cfm script to send an email to the list owner (me) so I would get
a message stating how many subscribers the message(s) were sent to. I have
several lists to keep track of and it was a good way to keep track.

~Mark


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:07:09 -0400, Kevin Parris <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Well, the LISTSERV log file does give a distribution count for each
>message that goes out, but you have to go look at the log to get the
>number (and be host-system authorized to access the log file, typical
>list owners usually are not).  And if there are digest or index mode
>subscribers, the tally of those appears separately in the log at the
>time the digest/index is generated and distributed, so you would have to
>collect that number as well.  Can't think of anything that is going to
>cause an email or other notification to be generated unless maybe you
>write something to parse the logfiles just after midnight and produce
>the report you're looking for, perhaps.
>
>But for curiosity, would you mind elaborating on just what the actual
>value is supposed to be, of knowing how many recipients there were for
>any particular list distribution?
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 06/24/03 09:43AM >>>
>On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:24:04 -0400, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>At 13:13 06/11/2003 Wednesday, Mark Schwarz wrote:
>> >
>> >What I would like to do is have ListServ send me a copy of the
>message (I
>> >am subscribed so that isn't an issue) along with the number of
>subscribers
>> >the message went to. Currently I must go to the list reporting panel
>to
>get
>> >the counts.
>> >
>> >In my abscense, when someone else sends a message, I do not get an
>accurate
>> >count (unless I count new subscribers & subtract unsubscribers from
>the
>> >current day totals - not to mention the subscribers that ListServ
>boots
>> >from bad email addresses.
>>
>>But do they actually READ it??? ;-)
>>
>>All of this presupposes that the numbers that you see bear any
>>relationship to reality.  They can only approximate, and you really
>would
>>need to do an analysis to validate your model.  E.g., I read some
>lists
>>via the WEB int.f (and I could be set to NOMAIL); or I might receive
>the
>>list distribution via a group remailer i.e., a list subscribed to a
>list
>>or gatewayed to a BBS.  Or the number might not include DIGEST/INDEX
>>subscribers.
>>
>>If these numbers are of strategic value and are worth money to you,
>maybe
>>another of L-Soft's products might better suit?
>>
>>Otherwise:
>>
>>REV listname NOH SH
>>Q listname WITH NOMAIL FOR *@*
>
>Pete,
>
>This works well but... I find that I need to send an additional message
>to
>ListServ to get the information. What I was looking for was a way to
>add a
>command to the configuration file of each list that would send a
>message to
>the owner informing them (me) of the count. Call me lazy, but this is
>the
>requirement, and I'm looking for the easy way out.
>
>Can the commands above be added to the configuration? And if so what is
>the
>exact syntax?
>
>Be gentle, I'm new at ListServ,
>~Mark