I hate to reply to my own messages, but ...

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:22:33 -0500, Paul Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The use of 'quiet delete ...' suppresses only the notice to the
> subscriber; it does not suppress the notice to the list owner.

Wrong! The use of 'quiet add ...' and 'quiet delete ...' suppresses the
messages to both the subscriber address and the owner address.

> Having said that, I would use 'quiet delete ...' because there is no
> reason to send notices to the dead subscriber.
>
> On those occasions when I have to manually delete a subscriber from
> multiple lists, I usually send a message to the corresponding -request
> addresses explaining the reason for the action. I believe that all our
> list owners know that the site administrators can add and delete
> subscribers.

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Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
University of Notre Dame