On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:58:24 -0500, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Other than simply doing a mass-delete of a userid@node when that address
>is no longer valid, how do you "handled" the case when that userid@node
>is a colleague and has died?  E.g., do you do so QUIETly and perhaps then
>edit the report and e-mail the list-owners (-REQUEST) why you have done
>the delete; or perhaps you do a non-QUIET delete and await inquiries
>(sometimes angry, either because the list-owner did not interpret the
>auto-generated message properly, or thought they were the only one that
>could affect subscription), etc.

The use of 'quiet delete ...' suppresses only the notice to the subscriber;
it does not suppress the notice to the list owner. Having said that, I
would use 'quiet delete ...' because there is no reason to send notices
to the dead subscriber.

On those occasions when I have to manually delete a subscriber from multiple
lists, I usually send a message to the corresponding -request addresses
explaining the reason for the action. I believe that all our list owners
know that the site administrators can add and delete subscribers.

--
Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
University of Notre Dame