>Colleagues,
>
>Am getting a daily error report which includes 228 bounces between
>01/26/2000 and 08/21/2000 for:
>
>>228 01/26 08/21 Bill Banks <[log in to unmask]>
>>                 Last error: User unknown
>
>The error report also includes this:
>
>>Subscribers will be automatically deleted from the list when delivery
>>errors have been reported for a period of 2 days or more, or when 10
>>delivery errors have been received, whichever occurs first. Monitoring
>>will cease after 3 days without any reported error.
>
>Furthermore, I can't find him on my list.  Why isn't Listserv deleting
>him?
>
>This is getting aggrivating.  I know I'm missing something very simple...
>
>Blaine Thompson
>[log in to unmask]

One possibility is that Bill Banks is signed up with another address
which is forwarding to the [log in to unmask] address.  When the
[log in to unmask] address went bad it started bouncing, but LISTSERV was
unable to remove it since it was not actually signed up for the
mailing list.

I'd issue the following commands:

        scan listname bill*banks
        scan listname will*banks
        scan listname bbanks

If xxx.xxx isn't one of the big ISPs or free email services and the
above doesn't give you anything worthwhile it also might be worth it
to do a

        scan listname xxx.xxx

and then manually search the result for "banks".

Finally, you could turn off Auto-Delete= for a day and look at the
actual bounce for more information on what the problem subscription
might be.

Thanks,
--
Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/