And here is our FAQ about bulk add and deletes:
http://www.its.uiowa.edu/cs/email/listserv/listsetup.html#bulkadd
Feather
At 09:11 AM 10/22/2002 +0100, Warhurst, SI (Spencer) wrote:
>Hi Eric
>
>BULK ADD
>========
>The syntax is:
>
>QUIET ADD listname DD=ddname IMPORT
>//ddname DD *
>[log in to unmask] Joe Bloggs
>[log in to unmask] John Smith
>etc
>/*
>
>All you need to change there is "listname" and the email addresses.
>
>BULK DELETE
>===========
>The list owner quick start guide (at
>http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/qs/qs.html#DEL) seems to suggest that you
>need the web interface to perform a bulk delete on a list of addresses.
>However, that is not true. The following works nicely:
>
>QUIET DEL listname DD=ddname
>//ddname DD *
>[log in to unmask] Joe Bloggs
>[log in to unmask] John Smith
>etc
>/*
>
>The manual also suggests that you should only include the email addresses
>when bulk deleting, however it does work with the names in too, which saves
>you having to create two files with & without the names.
>
>Regards
>
>--
>Spencer Warhurst
>Listserv Service Manager
>
>JISCmail -> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk
>Mailtalk -> http://www.mailtalk.ac.uk
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Baber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 21 October 2002 08:54
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Adding and removing a batch of addresses
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the generic URLs for the web-based interface. I've now
>> established that the web-based interface hasn't been enabled,
>> so I'll have
>> to do it by e-mail. Spencer, I think you said it was
>> possible, though not
>> quite as straightforward as doing it through the web-based
>> interface - would
>> you mind letting me know how to add and remove batches of addresses by
>> e-mail? Thanks.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> > "do you know what the generic URL tends to be?"
>> >
>> > on unix http://yourhost.domain/cgi-bin/wa
>> > VMS http://yourhost.domain/htbin/wa
>> > windows http://yourhost.domain/scripts/wa.exe
>> > or http://yourhost.domain/chi-bin/wa.exe
>> >
>> > These are the defaults.
>> >
>> > On windows, it might look something like
>> > http://lists.yourhost.domain/cgi-bin/wa?LMGT1=listname
>> >
>> > Bill Salmon
>> >
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