I don't understand something about auto-delete, or perhaps my list isn't properly configured. Going through my reports, I regularly find this sort of thing (I've edited it to leave only the problem): ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- [headers snipped] Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:04:52 -0300 From: "L-Soft list server at LISTSERV.UNB.CA (1.8d)" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: STLHE-L: Daily error monitoring report To: Russ Hunt <[log in to unmask]> The following 3 subscribers are currently being monitored: Err First Last Address --- ----- ----- ------- 114 05/16 06/05 [log in to unmask] Last error: User unknown [others snipped] Err= Number of delivery errors received thus far First= Date first delivery error was received (mm/dd) Last= Date of most current delivery error (mm/dd) Subscribers will be automatically deleted from the list when delivery errors have been reported for a period of 4 days or more, or when 100 delivery errors have been received, whichever occurs first. Monitoring will cease after 5 days without any reported error. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The question I have is, if the policy's in force, how come that user's still "on the list" and being monitored, since it's been many more than four days, and there were, on June 6, 114 errors being reported? (There is, of course, no such subscriber listed, and in fact no remaining "bitnet" addresses on the list -- but the date of the first error report is May 16, where I'd have expected this ghost address to have ceased existing, well, years ago. -- Russ __|~_ Russell A. Hunt __|~_)_ __)_|~_ Professor of English St. Thomas University )_ __)_|_)__ __) PHONE: (506) 452-0424 Fredericton, New Brunswick | )____) | FAX: (506) 450-9615 E3B 5G3 CANADA ___|____|____|____/ [log in to unmask] \ / ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~