If the major .com outfits agreed to "bounce" mail from previous subscribers
or full mailboxes the same way, it may be very easy to set up a filtering
mechanism on LSOFT's end.  Old addresses could be automatically deleted and
full mailboxes could be set to NOMAIL.  When the .com people inform the
people whose boxes are full, they can add a line re: subscriptions may have
been put on hold and to refer them to a -local- area for instructions to
restart list MAIL.
 
This would solve the ISP's problems with privacy and help the listowners
out at the same time.  It would require cooperation and teamwork between
LSOFT and the big .com people to set a simple standard, and adjust it on a
need be basis.  Maybe this would serve a good topic for the listowner
seminar being planned?
 
Ray