Sigh ... guess I'll reply on the list, since Mark missed my responses were via private e-mail ... On 16 Nov 2001 at 12:43, Mark A. Holmes wrote, in part: > my only concern: > does full-auto passive probing just delete bounce addresses immediately? No. In my experience, it does "the right thing". Fwiw, here's today's summary report for a list that has about 1,000 subscribers and 5-10 posts a day. cheers, wayne The following 1 subscriber was deleted from the xxxxxxxx list today: Joe Arndt <[log in to unmask]> Last error was: Probe failed. The following 6 subscribers are currently being monitored: Err First Last Address --- ----- ----- ------- 10 11/12 11/15 [log in to unmask] Last error: Probe failed. 10 11/12 11/15 [log in to unmask] Last error: Probe failed. 8 11/12 11/15 [log in to unmask] Last error: Probe failed. 3 11/15 11/15 Christian Danish <[log in to unmask]> Last error: Host unknown (Name server: managedops.com: no data known) 1 11/15 11/15 [log in to unmask] Last error: Probe failed. 1 11/14 11/14 [log in to unmask] Last error: User unknown 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. Note: manually deleted subscribers may remain on the monitoring report under an alias address. Such entries will expire eventually; you do not need to do anything about them. (end of quote; end of post)