--On Thursday, May 02, 2002 07:54:13 -0400 Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Bill Schipper wrote:
> 
>> But I wouldn't just quietly delete them.   Some @home.com addresses were
>> taken over by other ISPs, but with the domain name intact, so that you
>> could be deleting addresses that are still alive.   If I were you I'd
>> pull a list of all the @home.com addresses, and send them all a brief
>> message.   See how many come back undeliverable.   Those you can delete.
> 
> Why? Email to them will probably bounce anyway. Its not like the people
> who manage the various portions of the @Home network didn't send their
> customers prior notification of the shutdown. I was an @Home user and I
> received at least half a dozen notifications about the shut down and the
> need to change my email configuration. Some people just ignore such
> things. My feeling is that they now have to deal with the consequences
> or they can just continuing ignoring the issue, since some people probably
> don't even care about receiving any Listserv mail any longer.
>  

Well, it bounces. I just removed my 15 subscribers. 

Take the output from

query * for *@HOME.COM 

and mangle it (sed, awk) to

quiet delete * <address>@HOME.com PW=supersecretpassword

and send that the right way... 

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