Yes, someone has helped me, but I really appreciated someone breaking down
the command and explaining each item, it makes more sense that way.  I had
to break the list up into about 5,000 names each time, but it worked great.
Everybody has been very helpful.  I appreciate the support.

Lisa Coleman

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Paul Wayper (DPI ISD)
        Sent:   Thursday, September 10, 1998 6:29 PM
        To:     [log in to unmask]
        Subject:        Re: help with announce only list

        > I need to subscribe 25,000 people to an announce only list
quietly.  What is
        > the easiest way to do this?  I have email addresses only in a text
file
        > format.

        Put them in a command like this:

        quiet add <list-name> dd=names pw=XXXXXXXX import
        //names dd *
        <insert huge text file in here, one email address per line>
        /*

        The 'quiet' makes sure they don't get notified.  The 'dd=names'
tells the
        add command that you've got a dataset called 'names' somewhere in
the
        message that will contain the addresses.  'pw=' is your list-owner's
        password, and 'import' tells LISTSERV to only give you a summary of
the
        command (not a report for each entry), and will also set the command
        'quiet' if you don't already include the quiet keyword.

        Hopefully that answers all the questions you might have about the
        command.  Knowing my luck someone's already answered, though...

        Have fun,

        Paul