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Hi: I run a list that has about 500 subscribers and a fair bit of activity
(maybe 10 things a day) and a fairly naive clientele. They find it hard
to subscribe and signoff and other things that a more technically adept
readership can do as a matter of course; but I love them.
It seems to be raining Error messages on me, now in the third year of
our existence. I spend lots of time just deleteing the darned things.
Removing dead people from the list takes lots of my time. It's not
uncommon that some instructor in Detroit or whereever will signon the
entire class, and at the end of the semester they all disappear and I
have to clean up after them.
I'm tempted to change my keywords to divert all errors to some fake mail
box and just let them sit there.Is that unconscionable? Or would it set up
some bizarre resonance between that account when it is full and users'
accounts when they are full that would bring BITNET down around our ears?
In short, what do you people do? Do you religiously sit there
and do everybody's UNSUBBing for them? And let me tell you about the
concealed users. There are some errors messages that must be coming from
old concealed users who I can't discover at all. So am I fated to spend
eternity deleting error messages from these ghosts? I seem to recall that
my support people said that finding these concealed people and deleting
them was a little tough.
Thanks for any help.
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GENE V GLASS ATGVG at ASUACAD.BITNET
College of Education ATGVG at ASUACVAX.BITNET
Arizona State University Internet Address:[log in to unmask]
Tempe, AZ 85287-2411
602-965-2692
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