Shirley: The way I read the monitoring report, it will continue monitoring that user for up to "delay(n)" days of no errors. You tried to short circuited this procedure, but there is no way (that I know of) of informing the monitor. As you may recall, even DELETEing a userid from new distributions does NOT prevent in-progress distributions from bouncing. Those in-progress postings could have been generated days ago and are pending delivery (or bouncing). Thus, the monitor process should prevent those extraneous bounces from hitting your mail box one at a time. I don't think this is BAD (Broken As Designed), but GOOD (no acronym needed). -- co-owner INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L [log in to unmask] "I get paid by the Byte" +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg. -- Penn State Univ -- University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA