PD> It's done by the new beta TrapList.  It makes an index of the nodelist
 PD> when it's being parsed.  And thus takes a lot longer to do a Traplist
 PD> run.  You also need a lot more HD space for the index file:

 PD> Fidonet.users            1778976 ----rwed Saturday  10:12:29

 AM>   Just as a matter of interest, is it possible to switch this 
 AM> feature OFF
 AM> or is it inherent in the code?

Yep:  (NO)GENUSERLIST

Naturally, as a beta tester, I have it turned on.  It works :-)

 AM>   ...especially for something so "frivolous."  Grep may not be 
 AM> fast, (it 
 AM> took 30 sec to find "Deane" ) but at least it's
only 12K...  

I must get a grep.  Cygnus Ed has done me so far, but you have to manually
count the occurences :-)

  Mea Culpa,
 Peter Deane

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