In response to an owner query I discovered I had over 2000 entries in my SIGNUP files for a "Fredrik Williamsberg", whose name was used in several examples of how to mailbombing by forged subscription, back around 1996 - 1997. Sending Listserv email with 2000 command lines like: register off [log in to unmask] ...loses big time, roughly 12.5 seconds per line, which works out to what would look like a 7 hour outage. What's the right way to do this? -Kary That was the question I'm concerned with... as an aside, under VM I used to periodically halt the server and manually blast everyone who didn't have a password out of the signup files in a couple of minutes using some xedit macro. This was essential if I didn't want my server croaking every 6 or 8 hours for lack of memory. It would be nice if there was a hack or *very* efficiant command that would permit similar trimming. Or? -Kary