On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Mark Schwarz wrote:

>I need an easier way of getting counts.
>
>Currently I am the list owner of 84 lists used within my organization. On a
>monthly basis, I need a total count of unique subscribers. For March what I
>did was a Get List for all lists, copied the text (from each list)into a
>combined Notepad file, pulled this file into Access, ran a eliminate
>duplicates query and got my total.
>
>Problem #1
>Because I am using Lotus Notes, there is no easy way to export the text of
>a message so I have to cut-n-paste into notepad.
>
>Problem #2
>Even if I could export easily, is there an easy way to merge the 84 text
>files?

Why not install Perl on your Listserv server, assuming you have adequate
access to install software? With Perl, its a fairly easy task to write a
script to generate the information you are looking for.