Thanks Jean, I ended up with that solution also.  29 is the maxiumum number that our version can handle.  Does the job for me.

>On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:42:54 -0500 Bill Verity said:
>>I currently have 11 SIGNUP FILEs on listserv's A disk.  I forget how to tell=
>> it to make more.  My 11 files are currently over 30,000 lines each, so if I=
>> went to 20 or 25 each one would obviously be a bit smaller.  Eric told me=
>> how to do this once, but I misplaced the info.
>
>Bill:
>we put the following in LOCAL SYSVARS:
>SIGNUP_HASH = 29
>and got 29 signup files (...why we chose 29 is long forgotten).
>
>** Jean Snow  UGA Systems/Postmaster/Listserv Administrator        **
>** University of Georgia, Athens, GA      [log in to unmask]      **