[...helpful tutorial excised...]
 
>Question: what's the list-owner to do?
>
>Answer:
> 1. contact the administrator of any name-server which is *not* functioning.
> 2. reinstate the user, if possible.
> 3. don't blame LISTSERV's "auto-delete" function for something
>    which is totally beyond its control.
 
     Re: 3, Seems to me that there is a legitimate question whether LISTSERV,
in implementing auto-delete, should knowingly rely on information that is
unreliable. The intention of auto-delete is to save listowners work; deleting
in error based on reliable information has the opposite effect.
 
Steve Hirby
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