Great explanation Pete and Douglas! This confused me alot! Val (going nomail) On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 14:12, Winship wrote: > In addition to Pete Weiss' observation that you have set a 16 day delay on > automatic deletions, I will suggest that those singleton items, for no > subscribed address, are listname-request, or "you are not allowed to post > or "your posting has been forwarded to the moderator" type errors. That is > someone, who is not subscribed, sends something to the list or to > listname-request, which generates an auto-reponse. The auto-response cannot > be delivered so you get an error message. Not infrequently these are spam > items. I get a lot of these every day of the week. > > Douglas Winship [log in to unmask]