> We got a longer explanation a while ago.  Telephone calls in the
> UK are expensive and they have subscribers whose systems are
> configured to dial in one a *week* for mail.  For them, they
> obviously have to have the timeout at 8 days.  <sigh>
>
> Our subscribers through this system have been schools and some
> individual kids.  I suspect that this is the only way they can
> afford to be on the net.
 
I have several demon subscribers like that.  When I get bounced mail from
them (and apparently, one of my subscribers there only logs in once a
*month*, with overflow mail bounced to me in the interim) I set their
subscription to index.  It might be a good policy to generally ask demon
subscribers whose mail regularly bounces to accept a setting of digest or
index as a regular matter.
 
-- Roger Burns    [log in to unmask]