We'll give it a try.  I assume (we'll find out soon enough!) that the import
syntax will also accept people with single names.

Thanks for the help.

Roger Suppona
Sandia National Laboratories
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Pepper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Getting around the full name requirement
>
>
> At 2:48 PM -0400 06/09/98, Roger Suppona wrote:
> >We're hitting a snag in our effort to migrate from majordomo
> to listserv.
> >Many of the majordomo subscribers don't have full names,
> just usernames and
> >addresses.  So, when we try and do something like QUIET ADD MYLIST
> >[log in to unmask], we get back this error message:
>
> >We don't know foo's full name and would rather not be forced
> to dummy up
> >something.  We're in the process of rooting through the
> documentation but
> >can't find any obvious reference to a switch that will relax
> the full name
> >requirement.  I'm assuming this is a server, not a list
> issue since all
> >lists are required to submit adds with a full name.  Anyway
> around this
> >requirement?
>
>         I think it's just * as the full name. I use this
> syntax for batch
> adds, and believe it works both with and without full names.
> Do a Find in
> the List Owner's manual for IMPORT and you'll find the details.
>
> ADD mylist DD=X IMPORT
> //X DD *
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