Thanks, Ben.

I appreciate your suggestion to adjust configuration settings to prevent
spam. I've done that. I just became a new owner of an already-existing list.
So in addition to cleaning the spam out of the archives, I've changed the
configuration. The list is set up to receive posts from non-members. So I
added the requirement that posts from non-members must be confirmed. We'll
see if that stops the problem. If not, we may have to restrict posting to
subscribers.

All the best,
Pat

> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:38:18 -0700
> From:    Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: editing or deleting current archive notebook log
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:57:24 -0500, Pat Williams <[log in to unmask]> =
> wrote:
>
> >I've just cleaned all the spam out of my list's old archive notebook =
> logs.
> >But the current month's (December's) log contains nothing but spam =
> posts, so
> >I'd like to delete it or edit it to remove the spam. The simplest thing =
> is
> >to delete it, but if I do that now, in the middle of the month, will a =
> new
> >December log be started when new posts are sent this month?
>
> In general, yes.  However, it depends if you correctly delete the archive=
>  so
> that the archive index files are also deleted.  Then LISTSERV acts as if =
> there
> had simply been no posts unitl the next message comes along.
>
> If you are getting so much spam to your list, perhaps you should adjust =
> the
> list configuration settings so that less spam makes it to your list.
>