Deloris Williams wrote: > Thanks Charani. > But perhaps I should have re-phrased my answer a bit. I know about the > reasons for Bounces, but I was questioning as to why there seemed to have > been so many all at once. The insight that Joan supplied pretty much > answered that for me, with the list having been inactive for a while seems > to have been the cause and effect, if you will, of the issue on at least one > of the lists. Ah, OK :)) I cheated a bit with a small list I took over. It had been quiet for some time so I wrote to each list member individually to see how many would bounce off. Eight did. Almost all were unknown addresses. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk