On 8 Apr 2004 at 14:18, James Hale <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Secondly (this seems harder):
>
> I would need to update the membership of this list every night.
>
> There would actually be some 1500 lists that would need updating.
<snip>
> The nightly update comes from the human resources system, for the staff
> list, and from the student record system, for all the other lists. This
> is to ensure that only those actually enrolled or on payroll are
> included.
>

For this part of your question, you might look into setting up your
lists as DBMS-backed lists. Then you just need to set up scripts to
do automatic updates to the list-related database tables based on
changes to the HR and student databases.

Francoise