Re: The daily digest for majordomo-users. V6

At 05:20 PM 2.24.2005 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>The daily digest for majordomo-users. 
>Volume 6 : Issue 459 : "text" Format
>
>Messages in this Issue:
>  Re: List maintenance
>
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>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:35:38 +0000
>From: Casey Hatch <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: List maintenance
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
>On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:20:17AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>[snip]
>> After a mailing, I have succeeded in running scripts with "sort", "diffs"
>> and "uniq" and can wind up with a clean list of the bads that need
>> deletion. I haven't found a way yet to just wind up with just the "goods"
>> though. Just beyond the reach of my scripting ability I guess.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any such working scripts that will delete bad addresses in
>> bulk?
>[snip]
>
>Jack
>
>if you have a file of all of the bad addresses just substitute 
>"approve <password> unsubscribe Listname" before each address.
>
>I do it in vi/vim like this:
>
>:%s/^/approve <password> unsubscribe Listname/
>
>or if multiple listnames are involved:
>
>:25,56s/^/approve <password> unsubscribe Listname_1/ 
>
>This prepends from the beginning of the line (^) 
>"approve <password> unsubscribe Listname_1" on lines 25 through 56
>
>:57,123/^/approve <password> unsubscribe Listname_2/
>
>This prepends from the beginning of the line (^) 
>"approve <password> unsubscribe Listname_2" on lines 57 through 123
>
>This way you send one email and unsubscribe as many emails as you like.
>
>Help for those with less vi experiance:
>
>: = go into EX mode
>#,# = gives the lines of the file you want to execute commands on
>/ = separator fields /from/to/
>% = every line in file
>^ = Beginning of line
>
>*shrug I hope that helps.
>
>BTW I LOVE vi! :)
>
>-- 
>Casey Hatch
>president: Z-Olite Inc.

Blush! Ah yes! It's just that simple.

The thing is, I had tried a similar approach, but must have left something
out on the lines. For years, to help manage adds/deletes on single
requests, I been using templates made up for each list, so all I have to do
is paste in the email address and send to MJ. It does the work from that
point, including a check for duplicates. Just could't get the multiples to
work -- from your example shows that I forgot to put the password on each
line.

Many thanks!


Happy trails,
Jack L. Stone

System Admin
Sage-american