On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Brian Peasey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've have a couple  subscribers who aren't able to signoff on their own.
> Normally I can use the 'Scan' and find their orignal address, then
> 'Del' them. However, I've got two subscribers who that I haven't been
> able to help yet.
>
> With the first one, my scan comes up with....
>
>  scan visbas-beginners tmc
> "Sean C. Lilley/MDACC"
> <[log in to unmask]> SCAN: One match.
>
> but when I try to del the address, I get the following error
> message...
>
> >del visbas-beginners [log in to unmask]
> Invalid option - "[log in to unmask]". The valid options
> are GLobal, LOCal and TEST (minimum abbreviations shown in upper
> case).

    Bryan
    I would use  wild cards, e.g.
     del visbas-beginners Sean*@*mdacc.tmc.edu

Judith Hopkins, Listowner of Autocat
     [log in to unmask]
     http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~ulcjh

>
> Any suggestions on how I can remove this address?
>
> The next subscrber, has been trying to get off the list for a couple
> of weeks now. Scanning hasn't produced anything close to his address.
> He has sent me copies of list mail, so I sure he's trying to get of
> my list and not some other similar list.
>
> His current address is [log in to unmask] and
> claims to have been subscribed as  [log in to unmask]
> Scanning does come up with a few @nswc.navy.mil but
> all with very different sir names.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your help :-]
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Brian Peasey
> [log in to unmask]
>