Sigh. Please, let's not debate whether AOL is Good or Evil here. There's plenty of bits already being wasted on Usenet discussions of same. The original comment that the lifetime of AOL addresses tend to correspond very closely to the lifetime of the "free trial" diskettes is a good observation. I've seen quite a few people on mailing lists served from ND that change address roughly once per month. It's probably just a case of trying to get something for nothing, but it is an observed fact. Has anyone opened a dialogue with the Cserve and AOL postmasters on protective measures that could be added to their account archival/deletion processes? If not, I'd be willing to talk with them about it if someone has specific addresses for admin types (ie, not the generic postmaster@[aol.com,compuserve.com] address).