At 06:53 PM 1/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Eric, just realised I should have mentioned this a while back. Since I
>have passed on the chore of managing delivery error messages to a
>colleague, I have forgotten how annoying it is to receive the complete
>message along with the error message and message header.  Our list,
>anthro-l, with circa 1700 international subscribers gets inundated with
>delivery error messages, repeat attempts, etc, etc.  This can quickly
>close down an account in even a few days if one is not actively killing
>bad addresses.

Are you using auto-delete?  If not, turn it on and save your colleague a
ton of sifting thru stuff.

>Is there a way to clip off the original message from the listserv
>error messages...?

I don't know of one, but that doesn't PROVE that it doesn't exist.  o-)

dan