] I wrote: ] >In my view, AOL (and other .com providers, but mainly AOL) should ] >have some kind of routine to send automatic SIGNOFF commands to ] >lists to which the above user categories match in. ] Eric Thomas wrote: ] No, they should simply return bounces in a format allowing automatic ] deletion. 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-Pier Solari/mngr. [log in to unmask]