A possible solution: a command that would retrieve from all LISTSERVs any id from your node, and what list they are on... then you could compare the returned list to your list of deleted userids and issue the necessary DELETES. This would be a lot less traffic than sending (say) 1,649 delete-if-you-find-it commands to all the servers. Of course, this works best at LISTSERV sites, but a site without a LISTSERV could use the same methodology as long as they had a LISTSERV postmaster issue the DELETE commands. If that makes any sense... /jenny