Ascii list of group members

Is there any way a group owner can get an ascii list of the group members?

what is ascii? and as far as i know the only scriptable group functions is getting the key of the group the object is set to, and checking if an agent has the same group active

I suspect the goal is a text file of some sort, not really specifically an ascii file.

ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It has one meaning that is rather specific but is also used by some in a more general way to include similar character code systems, modified ones, extended ones, etc. The old Atari computers had a character code system called Atascii, Atari Ascii.

I will wager that there is a bot that can produce a list of group members.

Right. A custom client (bot or otherwise) can do it without much problem. Scripts alone cannot. Some groups maintain separate databases and maintain a member list that way, explicitly adding to the database when they invite new members and occasionally going in an pruning out those who have left the group. It can be a pain though, and takes very studious attention to process (I wouldn't advise trying it in an open enrollment group unless you have a constant location-based llSameGroup()//llDetectedGroup() tester which is going to add new members it hasn't noticed before--but note that you can't REMOVE people who fail the test...). I've been considering for some time creating a custom bot that'll help maintain the member list for just such a group, so that its officers don't have to worry so much about manual maintenance.

Correct, I'm looking for a text file containing a list of the current members of a group.

I have a script collecting visitor names and I'd like to compare the two lists to programatically eliminate duplicates to minimize the labor of adding new members to the group.

If llGroupMember() ever gets implemented, I'll be able to use that in my visitor collection script so that I don't store the name of visitors who are already members of the group.

In the meantime, I'd love to dump the group membership to a text file or a window that I can cut & paste from.

In lieu of that, does anyone have any ideas on how I could extract a group membership list (i.e. 1000+ name)?

That WOULD be handy. I've wondered why LL didn't make it possible to simply cut and paste from the Members&Roles page. The most logical reason I can think of is that it puts an annoying barrier in the way of spammers. You can still join an open group and copy out names manually, one at a time, so it's not much of a barrier. Still, it's a deterrent of sorts.

I was thinking more along the lines of only providing this function for a group owner.