At 7:27 PM -0800 4/19/97, Karen Strauss wrote: >If you don't mind handing the problem by hand, you might try what I do. I >have a list of 326 subscribers, averaging between 75 and 100 messages a >day, and I get really sick of "mailbox full" errors. AOL users seem to >generate most of these. I was dealing with about 500 mailbox full errors a >day and I didn't want to delete these users (I'd just have to help them >resubscribe later), so I now have a (quiet) policy of switching all >subscribers with mailbox full problems with digest mode. That way I get >only about four bounced mail messages a day from each of them. The really >weird thing is that even after the full mailbox is cleared out, they don't >seem to notice that they are in digest mode for two to three weeks. Then I >get a message telling me that my list is "broken." <grin> Thanks for the suggestion. I used to do this on another, much smaller (600+) list that I own. However, the lists I am seeking information on are much larger (14,000+, 15,000+, and 16,000+), and we upgraded to 1.8c specifically because of improved performance in auto-delete and probe. I'll reiterate again that auto-delete does NOT delete addresses with temporary errors, such as mailbox full or host down. It only acts on permanent errors, such as unknown user and unknown host. I just need to be clear about what triggers it to act. Sherry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherry Beauchamp Social Science Research Network (SSRN) [log in to unmask] http://www.SSRN.Com Leading Social Science Research Delivered to Your Desktop Daily -------------------------------------------------------------------------