Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:56:07 -0400
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence B. York wrote:
> On 10 Jun 97 at 17:17, Les wrote:
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>> What is the purpose of this command? Is it possible for the list owner
>> to review those messages which are being held and allow them to be
>> selectively processed? Or is this a command which has value to the site
>> maintainer, but not to the list owner?
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> HOLD listname -- holds a list preventing new postings from being
> processed until a FREE command is sent. You will not, as a list owner, be
> able to review those posts being held. It is usually used by a Site
> Maintainer during transitions of lists from one server to another (for
> example).
Why, then, is it a command which is available to list owners? It doesn't
seem to be of any use to us.
Les
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