Hi folks: A little while ago I asked the forum about 'ghost recipients'. Thanks to those of you who responded with comments and suggestions. Unfortunately my problem persists, and I grow weary my daily error digest reminding me of these folks. ANY suggestions are welcome: - these are email address that are not and have not been a member of my list for quite awhile (a year in one case). Persistent attempts to "delete/quiet delete" them results in a message which essentially says that it can't be done because they are not members of the list. - error messages do NOT come back from these addresses when postings are sent out. - the ONLY way I know the addresses reside somewhere is from listserv which daily generates the following error mesage: "Last error: 553 5.1.1 unknown or illegal user" for this collection of addresses. After a year of deleting these daily error messages, I figure there must be some way of getting rid of these folks. Help? Thanks Dan