Bulk Adding of Subscribers
                           Don Wiss, 5/5/98

There is a batch command that one uses for bulk adding. It is more
efficient and allows more freedom in the format of the names. (Note this is
different then in the owner's manual, which doesn't send the welcome
message.) Change XXXXXX to your password and correct listname.

add LISTNAME dd=x pw=XXXXXX
//x dd *
[list of names and addresses go here]
/*

The standard listserv format for names is:

address@domain.node firstname lastname

But in batch adding also allowed is:

firstname lastname <address@domain.node>

or any other RFC822 acceptable format, which means if a period is in the
name it must be in double quotes. (I believe (firstname lastname)
address@domain.node would also be okay, plus the reverse of it.)

If you don't have the first and last name you have to use an asterisk as a
substitute.

You will make mistakes, but they will appear in a report that is returned
after adding. Unfortunately the okay messages and errors are mixed
together, so one has to go through them all to find the errors and send
them in again. Eventually all will be subscribed.

After you have subscribed everybody you have to set on the Digests. The
batch command doesn't yet work for setting people to Digest. For that one
has to use multiple lines starting with:

quiet set <listname> digest for address@domain.node

Obviously the beginning part is a lot of pasting.