> >------------------------------ > > Well, why should someone be allowed to subscribe to the list if they are > not taking traffic? If they want to go holiday, then why don't they sign off > and subscribe again when they are ready for traffic. > > The 'nomail' feature is something that has always concerned me. If you > are paying for your list by the number of subscribers and thirty of them have > their accounts set to 'nomail', then what is the point of paying for a bigger > list? > > > > Fred > On the largest list I manage there are a quite a number of subscribers who have two or even three subscriptions in order to get around the fact that the address their own system tells them is their mail address is not the address LISTSERV picks up when they try to post to the list. All but one of those addresses is set to NOMAIL to prevent multiple messages. Of course you might argue that one could have another mechanism for this, one perhaps open to list owners only. I really don't see the point of what you say: "Why should someone be allowed to subscribe to a list if they are not taking traffic?" I always see this as parallel to the snail mail situation: if you subscribe to a number of magazines, and go on vacation, you don't cancel the subscription when you go on vacation; instead you instruct the post office not to deliver your mail for a while. Bill -- Dr. W. Schipper Email: [log in to unmask] Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4528 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7