> We got a longer explanation a while ago. Telephone calls in the > UK are expensive and they have subscribers whose systems are > configured to dial in one a *week* for mail. For them, they > obviously have to have the timeout at 8 days. <sigh> > > Our subscribers through this system have been schools and some > individual kids. I suspect that this is the only way they can > afford to be on the net. I have several demon subscribers like that. When I get bounced mail from them (and apparently, one of my subscribers there only logs in once a *month*, with overflow mail bounced to me in the interim) I set their subscription to index. It might be a good policy to generally ask demon subscribers whose mail regularly bounces to accept a setting of digest or index as a regular matter. -- Roger Burns [log in to unmask]