Chris Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:31:39 -0400 Pete Weiss said: > >At 16:48 8/27/97 CDT, you wrote: > >|If I know that a person (or address) is subscribed to a list that is > >|a Sub-List of a master list, how do I find out which specific list > >|that person is on? > > > >There's nothing magical about finding a person on a sub-list vs. a list. > >You do it the old fashioned way: either REV or SCAN. > > That's the point - I didn't want to have to issue 12 different SCANs. > Can I scan the master list and have Listserv return the entry WITH > the name of the sub-list (I doubt it)? In a message to this list on 27 Jun 1997, I noted the same need at the University of Florida (which also makes extensive use of sub-lists, mostly to mimic the origanizational chart). Eric's answer was that having the SCAN work recursively down into sub-lists was counter-intuitive (we disagreed) and that the solution was for UF to write a local command for Unix-based LISTSERV which would mimic our local VM-based /WHOIS command (written by me to handle sub-lists). Now that sub-lists are an officially supported part of LISTSERV, I'd like to see you and others convince Eric that the SCAN command should support sub-lists (with the output appropriately labelled with the name of the list that each match is found in). -- David R Nessl http://www.afn.org/~drn