Just to put some numbers behind what Eric said about the cost of SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE: The last time a batch of those came through [log in to unmask] inspection of LISTSERV's log file showed that they were taking 30 seconds each to search the 761 lists hosted here. In about a month we will be doing our annual cleanup of old accounts. It looks like we'll be removing over 8,000 of them. So at 30 seconds each that's over 65 hours elapsed time just to search and delete on our local lists. Using (NETWIDE would impose that work load on each and every server in the backbone. Some more, some less, depending on how many lists they host and the size of those lists. Needless to say we are NOT going to do that! And we don't appreciate it when others do it to us. -- Glenn A. Malling <[log in to unmask]> Syracuse University Computing Services +1 (315) 443-4111 220 Machinery Hall Syracuse, New York 13244-1260 Postmaster for SUnix and LISTSERV.