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 ;-) > > > >