On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:39:37 -0500, [log in to unmask] (Bill
Harrison) wrote:

On 14 Aug 97 14:28:44 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:30:10 -0500, Bill Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>Is there any command where you can see how many subscribers are set to
>>mail AND digest without getting a full list of their names and
>>options. What I want is the number that messages are being distributed
>>to like the ACK message shows.
>>
>>Something similar to
>>
>>        rev listname by mail AND digest short
>>
>Since it is not possible for a single address receive both MAIL and DIGEST
>form of msgs you can't.   I assume you mean
>
>QUERY listname WITH MAIL FOR *@*
>QUERY listname WITH DIGEST FOR *@*
>
>And you hope this sum of the 2 numbers will add up to what ACK shows.  It
>won't.

Here are the test results that I said I would run.

I sent this command and a test message :( to the list at the same time
to get a ACK number.

        QUERY xxx WITH MAIL FOR *@*          answer = 501

        QUERY xxx WITH DIGEST FOR *@*        answer = 160

        query xxx with nomail for *@*        answer = 31

        query xxx with conceal for *@*       answer = 4

        rev xxx (noheader short              answer = 692
                                            688 + 4 concealed

So Mail + digest = 661
ACK showed       = 660    ??????? maybe we had someone subscribe in
                                  the middle of the test.

mail + digest + nomail = 692
REVIEW Short command   =692    (688 + 4 concealed)


So it looks to me as if the ACK is a fairly accurate number for the
messages being sent out to subscribers. But it also seems that there
is no way to get that figure except for the ACK report.



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Bill Harrison
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