How about teaching or reminding users to save on a floppy or such prior to each mail clean-up . I use a 15 day count down . Those who do not comply probably never knew that they have a mail box ;-) >I only have around 460 users but only about 12 or 15 have any mailboxes >of any size. I deal with them individually. Some term users, I discard >their mail for them after letting them know I was going to. Other than >that I put a message up to clean out your mailbox about every 60 days >and that takes care of most of it. > >I had tried the OAT feature for mailbox cleaning and it works good but >it also cleaned out my mailbox of things I wanted kept. Susie works >roughly the same way. I may have to go to an automated cleaner in the >future but for now I have been able to handle it spending a few hours >each month. > > >*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* >| Bob Nunn - Operator Headgap | E-mail: headgap@headgap.com | >*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* >| Operator Headgap Web BBS | V.34 Modem : (901) 759-1542 | >| Supporting Mac, 64&128, Amiga | 33.6k Support: (901) 759-1543 | >*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* >| Visit our Telefinder Site at: bbs.headgap.com - port 1474 | >| Visit our Telnet Site at: telnet://bbs.headgap.com:1474 | >| Visit our WWW Site at: http://www.headgap.com | >| New IP Address: 206.30.217.170 - Now with Fast ISDN Web Access! | >*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* >| Try out our new Java Web Chat - Madam Zelda - Fortune Teller | >*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*