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[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi Betty,

On 2023/06/06 5:11, Widerski, Betty wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm seeing perhaps inconsistent behavior when searching a large list's 
> subscribers for all addresses in a subdomain. For example,
>                 - I have a list of 2000 subscribers
>                - about half (900) have the address form 
> "@class2023.college.edu"
>                 - I want to purge those, so Search "class2023"
>                 - I'm told how many it finds, but it doesn't display them, saying 
> "Selection too wide, unable to display selection"
>                 - I do some smaller searches, like "d@class2023" - these work, but only 
> if the result is less than about 50, otherwise still "Selection too wide"
>                 - I export the subscribers, use other methods to remove the "class2023" 
> addresses, and also some 950 "class2024" subscribers. I then delete ALL 2000 
> subscribers in the list (500 at a time) and subscribe my smaller set of remaining addresses - 150.
>                 - I do a search on the smaller subscriber list that results in more 
> than 50 selections (137) - this does NOT tell me "selection too wide"
>
> Please help me to understand what is limiting the search selection display - 
> is it that Sympa can't search well in really large subscriber sets? Is there 
> a parameter I can change? I'd like to wipe graduated subscribers from lists 
> in which they aren't the only subscribers.

Normally, if a search exceeds 50 results, the error message appears as
you pointed out, but if you search for "@domain.name" instead of
"address@concealed" or "user", the number of results is not limited.

Personally, I think such a counter-intuitive specification might be
eliminated.


Regards,
-- Soji

> Thanks
> Betty
>
> Betty Widerski
> Cloud & Server Engineering - HBS Information Technology
> HARVARD  BUSINESS  SCHOOL
> Shad 108 N | address@concealed<mailto:address@concealed> | T: 617.495.6642

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