The following EXEC can be run from the LISTSERV userid to eliminate all netwide SIGNOFF requests still in the reader. The netwide DELETE function was removed from version 1.8a for a very good reason, which has been extensively documented about a thousand times on this mailing list and many others (NODMGT-L, TECHREP, etc). This has understandably upset a number of people who were using netwide DELETE and were not aware of the problems it created on other people's machines because they were not impacted themselves. Many times it was pointed out to these people that it is easy to complain when you're not the one getting the angry phone calls from your manager and paying the bill. In particular people were explicitly warned not to convert the jobs into netwide SIGNOFF requests as the resource cost is even higher and the response would be to disable netwide SIGNOFF forever, leaving absolutely no means of action for the few reasonable emergencies that one does get from time to time. Unfortunately it seems that the CSGHSG5A staff decided otherwise and I have already had to purge 713 X-DEL jobs from their systems to restore a decent level of service. This is exactly the kind of thing I love to see happening on a Friday while I am away for a conference. There are two solutions to the removal of netwide DELETE: 1. Install PMDF V4.2 or MX V3.3 and stop sending netwide DELETE jobs. 2. Stop sending netwide DELETE jobs. If the community of sites that use but do not contribute resources to the LISTSERV service persists in not behaving like good network citizens, the sites that pay the CPU bills for the service will have no recourse but to remove functionality that is too easily abused. Eric /**/ Address '' Trace off Parse Value Diag(8,'Q F *',80) with ':' nf . If ^Datatype(nf,'W') Then Exit 'PIPE (ENDCHAR %)', 'CP' (nf+1)*81 'Q R ALL * |', 'DROP 1 |', 'LOCATE /X-DEL JOB/ |', 'SPECS /PURGE RDR/ N WORD 2 NW |', 'C: COUNT LINES |', 'CP', '%', 'C: |', 'VAR PURGED' If purged == 0 Then msg = 'No file purged.' Else msg = 'Purged' purged 'file'Word('s',1+(purged==1))'.' Address 'XEDIT' 'COMMAND MSG' msg If rc ^== 0 Then Say msg