Right on Song Weaver: the bounces from AOL.COM provide sufficient info for a list-owner to take action. Let's move on to other engaging topics. I know that Nature abhors a vacuum ;-) Here's one: what special LISTSERV tasks do you do at the beginning of the academic school year? reset STATs, purge NOMAIL users, turn on renewal processing (or somehow reset the frequency clock e.g., CONFIRM FOR *@*)? welcome message to all, institute an on-list dialogue purge obsolete archives, rotate/find a new sucker er' owner to run the list? /Pete Weiss at Penn State