>Has anyone done any experimentation to determine good Auto-delete >settings for less active lists? The defaults (4 days of errors or 100 >error meesages) seen fairly reasonable for active lists. But there are >lists that get less than one post per day and lists that receive a >burst of posts periodically (once a week or whatever). I use 7 days and 10 messages. Since my list is not terribly busy, 4 days seems rather short to me--one major problem at a site could cause errors for a couple of days and 4 seems rather close, so I extended it to 7 (but see LSTOWN-L archives for discussion of "weekly outages" or those systems which go down every week-end which could make a 7-day period problematic). I also saw no need to have a high message count. 10 messages is enough for me, but you might want something different. Remember, though, that these are errors you aren't having to deal with; they're handled automatically by LISTSERV. Unless it is causing a problem for your system, you could probably let these errors accumulate--the machine has a much higher tolerance for repeated errors than most of us handling messages manually do! Spencer