The number of error reports is largely dependent on your willingness to deal with them as soon as they show up. Just deleting them is a terrible strategy because in many cases it simply means that you will get more and more and more of the same, especially if yours is a fairly active list. A few days ago I could not access my mail for several hours and was consequently unable to set an individual to digest until some 30 messages had already been rejected by a system that loves to send daily reports of its delivery attempts. I am still receiving 30 messages a day from that provider, informing me that these old messages have not yet been delivered. Some systems keep this nonsense up for weeks! Today I woke up to over a hundred error messages because several providers are apparently down. I've been setting a whole flock of subscribers to digest. My subscribers know that they can set themselves back to ordinary mail as soon as they receive their first unexpected digest--which means that their system is accepting mail again. Be sure to do all setting to nomail or digest in the quiet mode; otherwise the notification listserv sends to the subscriber of the change you made will generate yet one more error message. Keep in mind, that once you have dealt with a particular subscriber's problem, it is then quite safe to delete the remainder of error messages to that same subscriber. I tend to keep one, just in case a subscriber get upset because I set him or her to digest. The error message is my justification for the change. BTW, has anyone else experienced problems with ix.netcom.com today? I just received several errors from there. Plus demon.com.uk (a system that produces an incredible number of errors) . . . Ingrid Shafer [log in to unmask]