>I have  just finished  DISCARDING 16 more  error messages  from LISTSERV
>because some of the network List Owners (this one was sf-lovers-request)
>don't know or  care enough to use  the QUIET with DEL.  I  would like to
>propose that QUIET be the default for  DEL since I would guess that over
>90%  of the  time a  list owner  is DELeting  a userid  which no  longer
>exists.
 
At least 90% of my DELs are due to dead users.  It's also very easy
to forget to use the QUIET option.
 
Michael