[freelists-users] Re: Fixing Bad Yahoo.com Email Addresses

  • From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:36:11 -0500

> This is what I've done in response to John Madden's email about the
> potential problem with bad yahoo.com email addresses. First, I listed my
> users and viewed the html source file, saving it to my local drive as a
> text file. I deleted all the code before and after the table tags. Then
> I did "search and replace" for  "<tr><td> &lt;" and "&gt;</td><td>" and
> "&nbsp;</td><td align=right>&nbsp;</td><td align=right>&nbsp;</td></tr>"
> replacing these strings with nothing. The result is a file with only one
> email address per line. Then I opened the file with ListMaster Pro, a
> free list tool from analogx.com

Btw, sending the 'who' command to your list's -request address will send 
you back the users list. :)

(And if you have access to a... non-windows... machine, you can execute 
something like 'grep "yahoo.com" file1 > file2' to get all of your yahoo 
addresses out of the file.)

John


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