At 13:16 02/12/1999 Friday -0500, you wrote: |Thanks for all the tactics, Uzi and others. I usually wait a few days too, |but after I get permanent failure messages for three days in a row, they |are removed, quietly. One of the advantages of non-quiet delete is that it notifies any other list-owners via the list definition keyword * NOTIFY= (of course you could CC: them on the DELETE mail itself).