Hi Jacob, thank you for your help, I appreciate it... :-) Etrit. On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jacob Haller wrote: > >A nice thing would be to be able to run the > >scan * <string> > >for all the lists... i don't know if you can do a similar thing already... > > You can get a similar effect by issuing the following command: > > Q * for *<string>* > > This gives a rather verbose output, admittedly. You may prefer: > > Q ***GUI*** * for *<string>* > > Why *<string>* instead of just <string>? It's because SCAN looks for > a substring whereas Q looks for the entire email address to match the > pattern. As an example, > > SCAN LSTOWN-L earthweb > > would return in part [log in to unmask], but > > Q LSTOWN-L FOR earthweb > > would return anything as "earthweb" isn't an email address subscribed > to the mailing list (in fact it's not an email address at all). > > I think this has been discussed before; a search through the archives > may turn up more information on this issue. (The archives are > available at http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lstown-l.html .) > -- > Jacob Haller, Technical Support > L-Soft international, Inc > http://www.lsoft.com/ >