You can send them only 1 by setting them to index instead of digest -- that's what I do -- three or four days of bounces on index gets them deleted, but you only get 1 bounce a day from each user with a full mailbox. At 11:06 AM 4/20/97 -0400, you wrote: >At 09:14 AM 4/20/97 -0400, you wrote: >>Why is an AOL subscriber's e-mail box any less full when set in DIGEST >>mode?! OK, theoreticaly *I* know > >It isn't any less full. In digest mode I am just sending it many (many) >fewer messages to bounce back. Four instead of 100. And that means fewer >error messages for me and the system to deal with. It also means that I >don't have to deal with messages from the subscribers asking whey they >haven't received their mail, and so on. > >I thought seriously about dumping users who can't maintain their email >boxes but since my list is for chronically ill people, I decided that I >couldn't do it. > >Karen Strauss > >