A solution is to put the address in quotes if deleting by email.

del <listname> "x@@y.z"

On 18 Jun 98, at 17:48, Ione Smith wrote concerning [LSTOWN-L] bad
subscriber address:

> Hiyall--
>
> Because of an error by my co-list owner (I, of course, am perfect ;-) ), I
> have ended up with a bad subscriber address on my list. It looks like
> this: "x@@y.z" . The problem is that, even though the address appears on
> the list, the server insists that this person is not subscribed when I
> issue a "delete listname x@@y.z" command.


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