On Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:50:22 EDT you said: >However once in a while with my own list I do a quiet delete of >particularly hot headed users and after a week or two they figure they >have been disconnected and ask what gives. I tell them they somehow got >dropped and they can re-subscribe. I tell my list members I do this and that they are free to resub if they want to. But I point out that if they do "it" again, I will drop them again. I even have a macro to zap someone whose address is on the current line. It is quite convenient. Dave /**/ 'EXTRACT /CURLINE'; C=Curline.3 IF ARG(1)='' THEN DO; DO WHILE (POS('@',Id)=0)&(C<>''); PARSE VAR C Id C; END; END ELSE Id=ARG(1) IF LEFT(Id,1)='<' THEN PARSE VAR Id 2 Id '>' ' CMS TELL LISTSERV AT TSCVM QUIET DEL PCBUILD PW=xxx' Id 'SET MSGMODE ON' 'MSG Request to zap' Id 'sent to TSCVM.' 'SET MSGMODE OFF' Dave Gomberg, San Francisco Internet: [log in to unmask]