--- "Mail deffered". - Torino, 1996-01-09 Correct me: as I understand it, "if his account is truly defunct" [Philip Janus, LSTOWN-L, 1996-01-09] the message should not be a warning for pending delivery (or for final dequeueing after many trials) but a 5xx message, which LISTSERV auto-deletion mechanism can act upon (deleting or summarizing). Otherwise, warnings are reflected to the ERRORS-TO address: and for a high traffic list is certainly wise to point it to a secondary one, devoted to this duty: eventually to discard everything unread. On some mail systems (and for high traffic a smart one is probably a convenience) incoming mail can be orderly and automatically sorted, at least by the contents of FROM and SUBJECT: and LISTSERV provides reliable information there. A script could even be applied to flush well known situations (scanning for addresses in the text); I don't recommend it, being easy to over-discard: if you have many users, it happens that a single message notifies about pending delivery for a bunch of them, not necessarily all at the same address. Accepting perhaps a little of postmaster's (more than listowner's) duty, I consider this more a service than an annoyance, since sometimes LISTSERV offers this way useful documentation, for spotting out and addressing e-mail misfunctionings of which users may be otherwise completely unaware. I miei saluti. <-- Eugenio Gatto (CIDEM, Politecnico di Torino, Italia) (list owner [log in to unmask]) TEL 39.11.564'6600 FACS 39.11.564'6609 EM [log in to unmask]