Francoise , in my previous thread on LSTOWN-L, Auto-Delete, Adam Bailey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: "I've found, at least on my LISTSERV, that a subscriber has to exceed the Max() number in order to be deleted. Although I've never tried to confirm that this is normal LISTSERV behavior. " This appears to be the case with my 1.8d list but it contradicts what you sent me in April (below). It also contradicts the text at the bottom of the Daily error monitoring report. My list has been set at: Auto-Delete= Yes,Semi-Auto,Delay(45), Max(2) Your message and the daily error monitoring report would lead me to believe that subscribers would be deleted with the second bounce within a 45 day period. I have attached a copy of the daily error monitoring report from yesterday. It shows users who have bounced twice still being monitored after 53 days? I have deleted the addresses for privacy reasons. I did check and these users are still subscribed to the list. Can you please help to understand what is going on. Thanks, Frank <<SOCO-NEWS-L Daily error monitoring report.txt>> ---------- From: Francoise Becker [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] <mailto:[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:08 PM Subject: Re: FW: LISTSERV 1.8d & auto deletion On 1 Apr 99, at 15:59, Fitzmaurice, Frank wrote: > Announcements are > usually no more frequent than once a month. I believe we have several > lists that meet this profile at DTIC. Currently the list is setup with: > Auto-Delete= Yes,Semi-Auto,Delay(4), Max(100) If you are posting only once a month, then no subscription will ever get auto-deleted with this setting. I would recommend: Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto,Delay(45),Max(2) This would auto-delete any subscription that bounces 2 months in a row. (I use 45 because you said "approximately" monthly, so this gives you a little more lee-way in posting rather than using exactly 31). What that says is that if within a period of 45 days, I get 2 bounces from this address, it will be auto-deleted. If it bounces one month, but not the following month, then the auto-delete log will get cleared. If you want to be more conservative, then you could up the Max. It doesn't clear the count of bounces until it's gone 45 days without a bounce, so if you use Delay(45),Max(3), then it would have to bounce for 3 months in a row. Of course if 2 bounces came, one on day 1 and one on day 45, that would also auto-delete it, because the Delay variable really gets used in 2 ways... <passive probing discussion omitted> Francoise