On Sun, 9 Apr 89 01:42:02 GMT Niall O'Reilly said:
>On Tue, 4 Apr 89 15:35:51 EST Harold Pritchett said:
>>>        Would the  postmasters on this forum accept a  restriction on the
>>>use of  XEDIT on the  lists in order to  gain better performance?  I know
>>>that it's a hot topic - some people ONLY use XEDIT, never GET+PUT :-)
>>>
>>
>>Absolutely!  We may just have to teach a few old dogs some new tricks.  If
>>it will improve performance you can save the thing as a TEXT file...
>>
>>Harold
>
>Amen!
>Niall
Ok, I'll concede, but only if the format is documented.  I do bulk updates
to several lists, and before I do them, I compare them to the list
to prevent them from being reapplied.  It improves performance even more
if you don't have to do the work period.  When I'm adding a hundred or
more names to a list, this can have significant impact.  Listserv is one
of the few applications we are having size problems with.  I've got
two lists here that have over a 1,000 subscribers, an dI have over 14,000
names in the SIGNUP FILE.  Small performance gains can mean a lot,
but to slightly change a phrase:
  "There's no work like no work"
 
Harry