I'm forwarding this message, originally sent to MAIL-L by Bill Frazier, <GG.WSF@ISUMVS>, but belonging here. /Zvika ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am the registered TECH REP for Iowa State University. As such, I assume that I should be able to perform certain administrative functions. One such function is the cleanup of LISTSERV subscriptions for users no longer on our system. This is important because at the end of each semester several hundred student user ids become invalid and many of them have list subscriptions. Over the last several years we have tried several times to allow another person here (the Postmaster) to do the "NETWIDE" signoffs but this effort has been unsuccessful. (Please do not send me messages about the ACONTACT tag, etc. It doesn't work.) A signoff job was submitted to the LISTSERV at NDSUVM1 for several user ids on one of our nodes, ISUVAX. It was sent from my user id. I have just spent a considerable time deleting from my mailbox messages from every @##$&*%$$@ LISTSERV informing me that I am not a NAD for ISUVAX, that the NAD for ISUVAX is [log in to unmask] Rod is indeed listed as CONTACT for ISUVAX. Aparrently we have succeeded in having another person able (exclusively) to do signoff for at least one node. 'twould be nice if we could achieve that for the user id we wanted and for all our nodes. I do not deal with LISTSERV frequently enough to remember all the rules. Should the TECH REP be able to do the signoff? What document do I need to tell me the rules? I've looked through the ones I have and haven't found anything. The whole issue seems to be complicated by the fact that LISTSERV rules and NETSERV rules differ slightly. Excuse please just a short venting of frustration. Right now, my inclination is to chuck the whole business of netwide signoffs. Once the user ids here are deleted, our mail server will bounce incoming messages. I'm sure that eventually someone will get tired of that and do the signoffs for us. This inclination will probably fade after a time. Until the end of next semester. Bill Frazier