Hi Jacob,

thank you for your help, I appreciate it... :-)

Etrit.

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jacob Haller wrote:

> >A nice thing would be to be able to run the
> >scan * <string>
> >for all the lists... i don't know if you can do a similar thing already...
>
> You can get a similar effect by issuing the following command:
>
>         Q * for *<string>*
>
> This gives a rather verbose output, admittedly.  You may prefer:
>
>         Q ***GUI*** * for *<string>*
>
> Why *<string>* instead of just <string>?  It's because SCAN looks for
> a substring whereas Q looks for the entire email address to match the
> pattern.  As an example,
>
>         SCAN LSTOWN-L earthweb
>
> would return in part [log in to unmask], but
>
>         Q LSTOWN-L FOR earthweb
>
> would return anything as "earthweb" isn't an email address subscribed
> to the mailing list (in fact it's not an email address at all).
>
> I think this has been discussed before; a search through the archives
> may turn up more information on this issue.  (The archives are
> available at http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lstown-l.html .)
> --
> Jacob Haller, Technical Support
> L-Soft international, Inc
> http://www.lsoft.com/
>