On: Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:48:49PM -0700,Pat Letendre Wrote: } If it's appropriate, I'd like to ask list members, based on their } experience, what a typical percentage of subscribers on nomail is. } Granted considerable variation will exist depending on the list, its } subscribers, and how much routine housekeeping the listowner does. Of the 2 dog lists i am owner of, one has 925 subscribers, with 357 nomail (more than I thought). The other (smaller) list has 145 users and 17 nomail. These are of the last time I did a statistics run, about 3 months ago. } For the list I'm currently cleaning up, about a third of subscribers } (500+) are on nomail. My guess is that perhaps 10% are on nomail } legitimately and the rest are de facto un-subscribed. My initial reaction would be that a third was large until I looked at mine. :-) } For interest, the list is for medical professionals in all } disciplines, and over its 18 years it's only natural that some } subscribers have preferred discipline-specific posts and set nomail } instead of un-subscribing. My suggestion would be to enable probing and auto-delete. That will dump the dead addresses in a cycle or two, and if you customize the probe message, MAY tweak the users to reactivate or unsubscribe. I use: * Auto-Delete= Yes,Semi-Auto,Delay(5),Max(50) and: * Renewal= 6-monthly,Probe You might (at least initially) want a shorter interval than 6 months and if the list is low traffic, max less than 50. The ROT I use for max() is approximately the number of posts monthly. If you have CHANGELOG enabled far back enough, you can see when they went NOMAIL. * Change-Log= Yes -- Rich Greenberg Sarasota, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 941 378 2097 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines: Val,Red,Shasta,Zero,Casey & Cinnar (At the bridge) Owner:Chinook-L Canines: Red & Max (Siberians) Retired at the beach Asst Owner:Sibernet-L ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTOWN-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=LSTOWN-L&A=1