>Hi,
>
>My company has been using listserv classic for the past several months with
>pretty good results. We send out a bi-monthly newsletter to over 50,000
>subscribers.
>
>One major problem we're still having is that invalid e-mail addresses,
>addresses with permanent delivery failures are not beling deleted.
>
>I believe this problem has been fixed. The Auto-Delete setting:
>Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto, Delay(9)), Max(2), Probe(30)

This is probably a typo, but I see that there's an extra parenthesis 
in Delay(9)).

>Does this setting work? Should I change this setting?

With Delay(9),Max(2) addresses will be removed if they bounce more 
than twice in nine days.  Since you're only sending mailings out 
twice a month this is unlikely to result in very many addresses being 
removed.

I would use Delay(35),Max(1) if you want addresses to be removed 
after two consecutive newsletters bounce (two bounces in a bit more 
than thirty days).

If you want addresses to be removed immediately after bouncing, use 
Delay(0),Max(0) (but note that in this case no daily monitoring 
report will be generated).

(I'm oversimplifying how Auto-Delete works a bit, but these are 
basically the rules of thumb I use when determining an appropriate 
setting for a mailing list.)

Thanks,
-- 
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