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Re: Sample of names
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On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 10:12:57 BST, British Airways Italy <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> I was just wondering if there is anyway of accesing a sample of the
> names that are on a list as a list owner?
>
> I just want to be able to see about 100 addresses that are on one of our
> lists.

I'd suggest doing a 'REVIEW listname', and using a small Perl program to
select every N/100'th entry, where N is the number of subscribers.

This is, of course, prone to all the usual statistical sampling issues. ;)

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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