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Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:12:10 -0500
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At 21:50 11/15/2000 Wednesday, Phineas Fiske wrote:
>One member of the list I run changed e-mail addresses or something,
>and so I got error messages about undeliverable mail. I deleted him
>from the list as a result -- but I still get the error messages, as
>though he is still on the list. I've tried sending a new delete
>message, and get a response that there is no such person enrolled on
>the list. How is one to deal with such a predicament?

This may be as "simple" as queued messages from previous distributions
that are still "in-transit" i.e., the confirmation that someone has been
deleted does NOT have anything to do with processing that is still taking
place "out there" on the Internet.  The UNSUBSCRIBE can't withdrawal the
messages that are still somewhere in the vast world of the LISTSERV
Distribute Backbone, mail exchange queues, host/network down yet still on
the delivery queue.

Or otherwise, there may  be multiple subscriptions for said user, or a
mail forwarding agent/redistribution list.

/Pete Weiss @ Penn State

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