> >Question two: What's with the new trend that sites with users whose mailboxes >overflow send the errors back to the POSTMASTER (not the list owner)? Univ. >of Washington is one of those, but there are lots of others. The message >that comes back is that the file "exceeds maximum allowable length" or some >such. What they mean is that the file is too big to fit in the overfilled >mailbox. > >What does one do about these (apart from sigh, I mean)? > >Anthea Tillyer City University of New York [log in to unmask] As a listowner I haven't noticed any new trend. Sites with users whose mailboxes overflow are still sending those errors to me. While a user exceeding disk quota allocation can happen to anyone (it's even happened to me!) I have two sites with lots of student subscribers. Their disk quotas are small and many of them them frequently exceed their quotas. What I do is to set their accounts to nomail. It protects me from being deluged in error messages. Once in a while I notify someone else at the site (usually a faculty member) to remind the students to clear out their accounts and if they have been set to nomail, to reset their distribution option. Judith Hopkins, Listowner of [log in to unmask] Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: ulcjh@ubvm