On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 21:44:05 GMT Aldo-Pier Solari <[log in to unmask]> said: >Mr. O'Donnell & AOL et al.: Sooner or later you will have to do it. >Perhaps, you could arrange a cooperation with L-Soft to set up a >protocol for bounces/automatic deletion as well as >automatic-bounce-tracking (such as the new LISTSERV feature which >monitors errors and auto-deletes the user after 5 error-days). Aldo, AOL runs one of the largest LISTSERV sites in the world, with a total of 461,503 subscribers, of which I imagine many are from AOL. That's 270 times more subscribers than FISH-ECOLOGY has. What makes you think that they aren't aware of the problem or that they aren't working on it? Did AOL ever say that they weren't going to work on this? If not, and if you haven't asked them, how do you know they aren't? You've been flamed because you've been shooting first and asking questions later, not because bounces aren't a problem. Eric