--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... -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.