Hi Francoise, Thank you, after your explaination I now fully understand what these auto-delete properties really mean. Thanks again, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francoise Becker" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:12 AM Subject: Re: Auto Delete properties > On 23 Mar 2006 at 11:47, Michael DeGregory wrote: > > > We have a list with Max(5), Delay(160) This means if the subscribers errors five > > times than remove the account in 160 days, correct? > > No. It will get auto-deleted when it gets the 5th bounce (the next > morning, actually). > > Subscriber will be auto-deleted when EITHER the max OR the delay is > reached. I.e. Max(100),Delay(4) means that if there are 100 bounces > for the address in just 1 to 3 days, it will be deleted, and if there > are bounces for 4 days, even if it does not hit 100, it will be > deleted. If there are fewer than 100 bounces for the first 3 days, > and NO bounces on the 4th day, then LISTSERV will not auto-delete but > continue to monitor for 4 more days. If ANY bounces occur within > those next 4 days, then the address will be auto-deleted. If NO > bounces occur during those next 4 days, then the bounce-count for > that address will be reset to 0. > > -- > Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]> > > Knowledge is just a click away: http://www.lsoft.com/optin.html