apparently you have forgotten the mail admin person who does
have to deal with bounces and follow them and clean them up.

lists dont just effect list owners and list subscribers.

ICos

PS:... any mention of a reply yet to the question of what
   the system requirements are regarding processes and memory
   for listserv on a Sparc machine?

>===== Original Message From LISTSERV list owners' forum
<[log in to unmask]> =====
>On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:11:46 -0400 ICoS said:
>>No one seems to have mentioned that you may also need to delete several
>>mail aliases out of the mail server as well.
>
>Why?  If someone sends mail to the decommissioned list, it will bounce
>whether those aliases are there or not.  The question is simply whether
>sendmail bounces it or LISTSERV bounces it.  The LISTSERV bounce in this
>case might be more informative since it tells you the list you are
>writing to does not exist.  The sendmail bounce will just say "no such
>user".
>
>Certainly you <can> remove them if you want but there is no operational
>reason to do so, short of just not bothering LISTSERV with the occasional
>message to a list that doesn't exist.
>
>Nathan

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