On 30 Sep 2005, at 11:30, Listserv Manager wrote: >Since my signup files are twice the recommended size, I either need to >increase the number of files, or else clean these up. I choose to clean >them up, but- it's a huge task. I don't even want to think about how long > REGISTER .... OFF >is going to take 275000 times (I've done 1000 or so and it was over a >minute- maybe several). I've been talking with the good folks at support >and they've been very responsive, but I wondered if anyone else has done >this/has any ideas. I started doing this by hand on VM/CMS in 1991 and by 1996 was forced to do this every couple of months to keep Listserv from running out of memory. Back then I just stopped the server, and then read the files with an XEDIT macro that would delete all lines that didn't have a password, which was delineated by, uh, HEX 15's I think. Chucked the macro when we went to the OpenVMS server, but I have, apparently done the same thing on that. Stopped the server, deleted the non-password user entries, and restarted without problem. So there are two points here... (1) yes, on these two OS'es you can just chuck the stuff you don't want, although I suspect LSoft puts this on the same spiritual level as handling serpents. (2) You can figure out your own program and method of deleting non-subscribers or you could compromise for something as crude as just chucking everyone without a password which I've done repeatedly without getting caught by the users. ;-) There may be other factors, like all *user* lines (or something) without passwords so look carefully before you leap and keep backups. -Kary