1 April 1995 Ottawa I had to delete a couple of users from blind-l in Venezuela due to non delivery. Problem was I was getting the message connection timed out or no such host. Not sure what the solution is, as it appears to be a physical network problem. If the subscriber wants the mail bad enough they could arrange for an account in the U.S. or some country with reliable network access and call in at their expense for the mail, another alternative is have themreceive archives of the mail on a diskette. Of course someone has to physically mail the disks. You may wish to contact the postmaster at the site your subscriber is at and ask what their network problem seems to be and also the postmster at the site that is receiving the message and unable to deliver it. I can see transient network failures occurring but the other site being unreachable for 5 days or more at a time is serious network trouble. You could also try looking for a better link to the destination site and try to somehow manually force-route it that way. Back in my bitnet days i could cut a week off mail delivery by selecting a good but not very busy gateway. The problem of a subscriber who genuinely wants to interact with a mailing list but has network trouble is for real and the solution of deleting the person from the list for the sanity of the listowner is not too good for the subscriber but keeping them on can flood out the list owner with error reports. Brian Lingard Internet [log in to unmask]