As stated in my earlier message, I only need to know the distribution
count, not recipients. Our mandate states that we must have electronic mail
lists for new information posted to our website. One requirement is to
track (among other things) the subscribers the message was sent to. This
can easily be found in the log or admin panels but I just wanted a quick
way to get the info and throw it into my database. I am going to use the:
REV listname NOH SH command in a seperate email to get the numbers quickly.

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:21:17 -0400, Valdis Kletnieks
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:07:09 EDT, Kevin Parris <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>
>> But for curiosity, would you mind elaborating on just what the actual
>> value is supposed to be, of knowing how many recipients there were for
>> any particular list distribution?
>
>Especially if there's some regulatory issue here - I know there's some
>SEC requirements for e-mailing of financials that require that everybody
>receive their copies within some time X, as otherwise the guys at the front
>of the list have unfair advantage over the ones at the back (I believe the
>value of X is on the order of "several hours").
>
>But note that *there*, the critical question is "when did the first one and
>the last one actually go out"...
>
>And if there's a regulatory issue, *ASK YOUR LEGAL TEAM* what the
implications
>of a subscription from an addresss like [log in to unmask],
where
>it's an internal redistribution.