A question was asked about why someone was automatically removed from the list and I thought it would be a good idea to address this issue and the issue of bounced mail messages in general. The Listserv software monitors error messages. When there are errors from an address for 5 consecutive days or 100 error messages total then the subscriber is dropped from the list automatically. I personally like this feature because I get one e-mail message for some of the problems each day instead of a flood of error messages. With more than 1700 subscribers now I still get a flood of error messages. The two most common error messages are that the subscriber has a full mailbox or that the system serving the subscriber is either down or unreachable for 3 days. In either case I usually switch the subscription option to digest instead of regular mail. With the number of messages posted to the list, two or three down sites can generate up to 300 error messages a day. When the digests start bouncing then I will remove the person from the list. Managing the list comes has lots of good days and a few really bad days. No one is removed without a reason, and when you do find yourself bumped from the list it may be a good idea to check with your local site administrator and try to get some extra disk space or find out why e-mail to your site is being rejected and generating error messages. --john chadwick [log in to unmask]