Hm.  Scotty says,

> He sets himself to NOREPRO NOINDEX NODIGEST and NOPOST ...
> presumably leaving MAIL set on

And Cleo says,

> the only thing I can see I wouldn't like about this idea is that
> if they change back to MAIL, which they may.. I wouldn't know
> unless I queried their subscriptions every day for every list.

I was assuming that there'd never be occasion -- unless there were a
human being monitoring it -- for these folks to know they'd been set
NOMAIL.

But Cleo also says,

> IF I quiet del them though.. we *will* know if they sign back up.

There's that.  Quiet del is probably the best solution.

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