RE: Warning of discrepancies between Logs and counts of subscribers

Kyle and Charles, thanks for your replies. If I understand Charles'
suggestion, you're both suggesting similar things that require storage
of requests from the past. Kyle, your suggestion is in fact what I do,
and email the monthly results to the user. Unfortunately, she's lost the
emails and her analysis of them, and wondered if it would be possible to
recreate the monthly totals from scratch.

Thanks, again, for thinking about and responding to my question.

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Wheeler [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 6:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Warning of discrepancies between Logs and counts of
subscribers

On Monday, October 23 at 12:49 PM, quoth Charles Cazabon:
>Zembower, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Based on this conclusion, I can't think of a way to recreate the
monthly
>> counts of subscribers. If there's another way, please let me know.
>
>Modify your analysis script to keep track of the subscribers of the
list, and
>ignore any log entries showing addition of someone already on the list.

You could also do something like save the contents of ezmlm-list each 
month (e.g. `ezmlm-list > lastmonth.txt`), and report the diff between 
the latest output and the previous month's output.

~Kyle
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