Netwide delete is no longer supported. See the following from the release notes for version 1.8a. 8. As announced in the 1.7f release notes, support for netwide DELETE jobs has been removed (netwide SIGNOFF is still supported). Sites running LMail, MX V3.3 or PMDF V4.2 need not worry about submitting netwide DELETE jobs for expired accounts as their mail system takes care of that automatically. Sites running older versions of MX or PMDF should upgrade to the current version. The specifications of the LMail/LISTSERV delivery error format are available from L-Soft support. ************************************************ * Warning: do NOT use netwide SIGNOFF instead! * ************************************************ Support for netwide DELETE has been removed because this method of broadcasting information about the deletion of hundreds of of thousands of local accounts every semester to the entire network does not scale up and placed an unbearable load on the hosts providing the LISTSERV service. Do not modify your procedures to use a series of netwide SIGNOFF jobs instead, as the overhead would be even higher. Netwide SIGNOFF remains for the convenience of individual users who know for a fact that they are subscribed to mailing lists, and for emergencies. If the LISTSERV backbone is flooded with tens of thousands of "preventive" netwide SIGNOFF jobs from users who have never been subscribed to any list, the overhead will be such that there will be no alternative but to remove netwide SIGNOFF permanently. 9. As a corollary to the removal of netwide DELETE and the conversion of the DELETE command to PASCAL, support for the "DD=" syntax has been removed. This syntax was needed only to support netwide DELETE in a more efficient manner. Simply issue multiple DELETE commands if you need to remove multiple users from a list. The setup overhead with PASCAL command is much lower and there is no noticeable performance impact unless hundreds of users are to be removed. --Nathan