I've had this problem, too, on a list of similar size. I looked for a magic bullet and couldn't find one. But eventually the problem went away. I suspect it's like cooch grass in the garden: you just keep pulling at it and eventually you get ahead of it. > As we're getting into the summer, lots of people on the list > are going away on summer trips (this is a list for high school > students), and they want to get off the list. However, even > though it says on the bottom of every message (in the footer) > how to unsubscribe, many of them don't know how to and just > e-mail the list saying "Please take me off the list" even > though I've explained at least a couple times in the past that > they shouldn't e-mail the list because it fills up peoples' > mailboxes. I think it would be possible to set up a filter to pull specific messages out before distribution (pulling out every message whose first word was "please" would probably be about 70% effective), but I don't know that it would be worth the hassle. What I did was set up a filter on my own mailer so I could deal with them in batches, and write a boilerplate message explaining why you shouldn't write the list. Lowered my workload -- and I think eventually worked (I just checked the archives and there's not been an unsubscribe request to the list in a year). -- Russ St. Thomas University http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/