On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:19:29 -0400 Peter Bostrom said: >I have a need to create a report/graph of subscribers >by week for the last few months for one of our lists. >We'd ideally like to create a comma-separated value >(CSV) file as input to a spreadsheet directly from data >stored in the list file itself, the layout is a mystery to me. > >I've looked around at the contrib areas on the FTP >site at ftp.lsoft.com and most of the similar tools >seem to want to read the log files, not the list file. >We basically want just the "Subscribed on" date >for each subscriber - I'll manipulate from there. > >I saw a couple threads in the LSTSRV-L archives >on stats in general, or enhancement requests for >the stats command, but nothing along these lines > >Help? Thoughts? Direct access to the LIST files is not a supported interface. The supported interface would be to send a Q listname FOR *@* from the list owner, and parse the results. (As lousy a method as any.) If you figure out the format, I'd love to see it too. I have similar needs for other things. > >Peter /ahw