At 9:17 PM -0500 12/5/01, B & A is rumored to have typed:
When I search the dist file, they're RIGHT THERE every time. Who's dumb here... me or smartlist? <grin>
(*sigh*) NEVER give me an opening like that again...I promise I won't be able to resist myself... ;) But to be serious, check your dist file _carefully,_ preferably with a un*x editor instead of transfering the file to another OS. There could be a bunch of reasons for some of the symptoms you describe, so check the dist file for anything odd; blank lines anywhere within it, <CR><LF> pairs instead of straight <LF>s, make sure the "(Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)" line is STILL THERE (removing it is guaranteed to make SmartList decide not to auto-unsubscribe anyone) and generally research the heck out of the dist file. You specifically said:
Incidentally, ALL of the bounces are arriving in my moderators box and none of them are being removed after ANY number of bounces... I'm having to do it all by hand.
...which tells me you've been mucking around manually with your dist file, but you didn't say _how_ you've beem mucking with it, and tranmsfering to a Windoze box and back bunches of times is the fastest way I know of to get stray <CR>s in there. (Un*x uses <LF>, Macs use <CR>, and DOS/Win uses <LF><CR> for line terminators; go figure, they can't even agree on something as simple as this. So <CR>s in a un*x box's text file is a bad thing.) I'm willing to bet a coffee (quad cap, light on the milk) that your dist file is screwed up somehow, in one of the ways mentioned above or some other new and original way I haven't seen yet...and the most common way for it to _get_ screwed it up is the maintainer playing around with it by hand, instead of letting SmartList handle it exclusively, unless s/he knows _exactly_ what s/he's doing. Charlie