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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 06/06/2023 10:10, IKEDA Soji wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I agree with that. There should be no significant difference in the 
search performance whether you search @domain.name or user(@domain.name).

Regards
        Racke

> 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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