You might be interested in my recent experiences as the postmaster/administrator of a decommissioned e-mail system. Though this host still exists and can still receive e-mail, the users have moved onto other systems. We don't support a mailer. 1) many users never unsubscribed from automation processes including those on LISTSERV(R), ListProc, MAJORDOMO, MAISER, and a variety of WEB-enabled subscription services. Thee most frustrating were the last three -- often they did not self-identify themselves and trying to find a method of unsubscribing users aka SPOOFING became problematic. ListProc too was somewhat frustrating (even if the process was called ListProc@ (not always the case)) since I am unaware of a reserved system administrator userid of POSTMASTER, MAINT, etc. 2) user-to-user (nickname) too was frustrating -- somehow it became a herculean effort to get folks to stop e-mailing the host 3) finally, because we have a university-support PH server, many entries continue to reference the old location (but what is the proper new location? <rhetorical>) Some users had been notified for more than a year that their multiple forwarding was causing a problem e.g., [log in to unmask] -> [log in to unmask] -> [log in to unmask] These folks are now not receiving their mail. -- mailto:[log in to unmask] Tel: +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg; University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA Powered by: LISTSERV, Eudora, Netscape, mIRC, FreeAgent