On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, stan wrote: > As administrator of listserv.temple.edu, I am looking for a way where students > in certain cources can be automatically subscribed to the appropriate lists > for their cources. > <....> > What I am wondering is if this idea sounds sensible. How do you Listserv > site managers at other universities handle this service? We do the following: 1. Once created, we never delete class mailing lists. 2. We make the faculty member or class list co-ordinator in each dept. responsible for all of their class mailing lists. 3. Requests for large numbers of class mailing lists go to the dept. co-ordinator. co-ordinators are owners on all their lists. 4. The co-ordinators (or any individual faculty member who is an owner) completes a form off Listserv's Home page to Update their class mailing lists for a new Term/Semester. 5. The form requires the ListName, Owner e-mail address and lsv passwd. 6. The output of the form is sent via e-mail to a java prog. running on the same machine as the student database. 7. This is where the onwer e-mail address and passwd is passed for authentication to listserv, where the student names and e-mail addresses are pulled from the database and where the ADD jobs are built to send to listserv to add students to their class mailing lists. 8. I don't do anything, but I get cc:'d on all requests. :-) What makes the above process work is that the class mailing list names for courses are standardized. Hope this is helpful. --Trish