Catherine Weresow wrote, in part:

>    I am running listserv 1.8e on Solaris, and I have a LOT of *.autodel
> files in listserv's home/ directory. As far as I can tell, every mention
> of the autodel files in listserv documentation implies that there should
> be one autodel file per list (listname.autodel), but we have many more
> than that (2405 .list files vs 77,416 .autodel files currently).


I'm guessing that listserv creates a .autodel file for every address for
which it receives a bounce, whether or not it's a list address.

Fwiw, I've got a couple of dozen with common first names (linda, john,
etc) and one called "istserv.autodel" ... and I seem to remember recent
bounces concerning that address.  Many of the zero-length .autodel files
have old dates.  Maybe a careful deleting of  non-current files would be
useful in your case? ... but maybe that's a question for lsoft.
;-)       cheers, wayne