On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:53:34 -0500, John Witherspoon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>After getting tired of weeding through a lot of error messages, I recently
>set my e-mail filters to automatically trash any incoming message with
>From: containing "L-Soft" and Subject: containing "error report" or
>"monitoring report".
>
>All my list headers have:
>
>* Renewal=         2-Monthly,Delay(7),Probe
>* Auto-Delete=     Yes,Full-Auto,Delay(5),Max(5)
>
>Am I running any risks or creating any problems for myself with this
>approach?  What message of importance might come in that I would miss?

Any error msgs that reach you inspite of the above settings are ones which are
in a non-standard error msg format that LISTSERV does not understand.  If you
trash them and take no action on them (such as deleteing the problem user)
LISTSERV will also take no action and not delete the user either, so the error
msgs will continue.  They are not counted towards the Auto-Delete unless
LISTSERV can parse the error msg (in which case it does not send it to you,
except as a line item the daily summary monitoring report).

The way to reduce the error msg count is to deal with the specific problems, not
wish for them to go away.  If you are managing a lot of lists, handling errors
is a documented part of the job whether you do it or find someone else to do it.