> those lists. I don't think either, however, has the volume of > WORDS-L, so I understand your priority to get people off the list > as soon as possible. Unless I'm in a particularly impatient mood at the moment, I don't usually do anything about bouncing mail until I see 15 or 20 bounces from an address. I think the other WORDS-L owners have the same attitude, although we haven't discussed it. With my other lists, both of which are relatively quiet (usually no more than 20 or so messages on even a busy day), I don't do anything about bouncing mail for several days. As long as the bounces aren't being distributed to subscribers, I feel that it's tacky to cut somebody off too quickly since the subscribers usually aren't responsible for temporary glitches that cause their mail to bounce. I see your point about the need for coordination to keep listowners from sending duplicate messages to postmasters, btw. And I guess in a way we have sort of an implicit coordination on WORDS-L since the other listowners came in as helpers when I was going to be out of the country for several weeks last summer with questionable telnet access. I think they would probably check with me before doing something like changing list headers or sending mail to postmasters. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure that they even know the list password -- not because I was keeping it a secret from them, simply because none of us thought about it. --Natalie ([log in to unmask])