On Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:11:26 -0500 LYDIA FISH said: >especially the last time the person contacted the listserv? I found that >feature very useful for winnowing out folks set to NOMAIL for more than a year. >(My list attracts quite a few students who set their accounts to NOMAIL, forget >all about them, and then leave at the end of the semester.) > Why not let LISTSERV do that for you with renewals? Set it for six months, a year, whatever works for you? I had some doubts before setting it up for my lists, but after a year with it I can't imagine living without it. Also, as the lists had been in existence for four to five years each they had over a third deadwood, and the mainframe manager is thrilled that I reduced the load on the machine by letting renew clean up my lists. dan Dan Lester, Network Information Coordinator Albertsons Library, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 83725 USA [log in to unmask] http://cyclops.idbsu.edu/ How can one fool make another wise? Kansas, "No One Together," 1979