Earlier today, Duane Weaver asked: > What do other list owners/ LISTSERV postmasters do in handling rejection > mail? If the rejection mail is for a Internet site, do you try PINGing > the host site? I usually ignore a single bounced mail message, but after receiving several, I simply set the subscriber to "nomail" and wait for her/him either to contact me or to reset the subscription to "mail." My list, WMST-L, is fairly active (averaging 10-20 messages per day), so subscribers would be likely to notice a sudden stoppage. My practice might not work so well on a less active list. As for PINGing the host site, I'm on a VAX/VMS system (though the list is on an IBM), and I don't think I can PING (at least the one or two times I tried, the computer didn't seem to know what I was talking about--which made two of us!). Joan Korenman Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: korenman@umbc