Adding Many Members

New members may be added to your database in many ways. For single member or small number of member adds, the method described below for adding via email commands works well. However, if you want to add many members at once, you will find it faster to use Utilities: Members: Import Members.

The add command can be easily used to add many members at once. This is done by using any of the line-continuation schemes discussed in the "The Line Continuation Character" section. The syntax below uses the ‘<<’ and ‘>>’ operators to delimit a list of names to be added. The syntax to add many members is:

add listname [quiet] <<
emailaddress1
emailaddress2
>>

The quiet modifier is optional, and works exactly as it does when adding a single member. In the case where you add many members, a single quiet modifier serves to suppress sending a "hello" message to each member.

Alternatively, you can use the "\" or "&" to separate each name, rather than delimiting the entire group. The example below uses "&" to continue the line:

add jazztalk quiet &
user1@nowhere.com &
user2@nowhere.com

If you want to add members with user names, the user name must be before the e-mail address. For example:

add jazztalk quiet <<
   User Name1 user1@nowhere.com
   User Name2 user2@nowhere.com
>>