What about using LMS -----Original Message----- From: stan [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 3:01 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Automating bulk list subscriptions for students 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. We probably have about 1,000 course related Listserv lists here. Right now, students are either required to subscribed to the lists for their courses or the instructors subscribe the students for them. Each list is maintained by its respective course instructor. Any instructor who wants to utilize a Listserv list for his or her students has to request the list via a somewhat manual process, but one that's very easy to deal with for all parties concerned. Now, I figure that it would be a good idea if the students can be subscribed automatically for any list that's created for any course that has a list associated with it. In order to implement this service, I thought I would set up a web page on our Listserver. We run Listserv 1.8d under Unix and Apache as our httpd server. This web site would allow the instructor to type in his or her personal list password, the name of the list, and some course identification information. The web page would call a CGI script just to verify that the list in question exists. If the list exists, then another script would generate the appropriate job file and email it to listserv so that the various subscriptions can be processed. The data file with the students' names and email addresses will be sent to me at least once a day and it will be in a format that's easily parsed by a Perl script. I figure I will let Listserv actually verify the instructor's password and email address for the request. What I am wondering is if this idea sounds sensible. How do you Listserv site managers at other universities handle this service? Thanks