I wrote a Perl script with a simple CGI web interface that can be used to do
a live search of all the list headers for owners. It will either produce
unique or non-unique owners (it only shows the email address, not the name)
and it non-unique owners is selected it can show the listname aswell. It
also outputs results to a text file, which can be used to bulk-add to a list
or load into database apps such as MS Access.
It runs on Windows, but probably just changes to the drive paths would be
required for it to work on other systems.
If you want a copy of the files let me know and I'll send you them.

--
Spencer Warhurst
Listserv Service Manager

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: UB Listserv Admin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 01 July 2002 21:18
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Generating a database of list owners
>
>
> Whoops, that was supposed to read:
>
> "There's NO database in listserv that has that."
>
> -Jim
>
>
>
> Mitch,
>
> There's database in listserv that has that. You need to create
> it on your own.
>
> We did something similar, like this (flavor for your particular OS):
>
> 1) Start with a list of all files ending in .list
> 2) Do a foreach on the list - for each .list file, use "listview" to
>    view the header and grep out only the "Owner= " lines.
> 3) Append the "Owner= " lines to a new file.
> 4) Use awk or sed to strip out everything other than the
> email addresses.
> 5) Make your new "owners only" list and bulk add the
> addresses from the file.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -Jim
>
> --
> Jim Serwinowski                 [log in to unmask]
> UB Listserv Administrator       http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mitch Rerek wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:41:22 -0400
> > From: Mitch Rerek <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: LISTSERV give-and-take forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Generating a database of list owners
> >
> > Is there a method within ListServ to generate a 'list' of
> the all list owners?
> > One of our administrators wants to track all list owners we
> host here and be able to contact them by using a list.
> > Is there a central list owners file that we could copy and
> setup such a list?
> > Any comments or suggestions would be most welcome.
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Mitch Rerek
> > Senior Information Technology Consultant
> > OIT Customer Support
> > West Virginia University
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> >
> > Remember the jalopy driver's rule:
> >     " If it's running don't fix it! "
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> >
> >
>