Alternative:

SEND= EDITOR,CONFIRM,HOLD
EDITOR= you

RELEASE list

Wait for avalanche ;-)

then reverse (set back to "normal")

/Pete

At 15:34 02/19/2003 Wednesday, Rich Keller wrote:
 >One idea is to set your subscribers to NOMAIL, then free up the list.
 >WIth this setting
 >mail will be posted to the list but not to subscribers.  Then, you can
 >edit the archives to
 >remove the corrupted entries, reset your subscribers to receive mail, and
 >resume
 >delivery to the list.
 >
 >Otherwise, unless you are also a site administrator and have permissions
 >to remove
 >mail from the LISTSERV spool there isn't really anything you can do.  If
 >you are not a
 >site administrator you will probably need to contact someone that you can
 >work with to
 >remove the jobs.
 >
 >Richard Keller
 >
 >> I've already looked through the archives but didn't find an answer
 >> that jumped out at me so I'm asking here.
 >>
 >> I have a weather-related list which automatically posts certain
 >> tropical storm-related bulletins sent from the NWS to the list.  A
 >> communications problem resulted in a bunch of garbled messages being
 >> sent and LISTSERV's SPAM filter didn't recognize the problem (since
 >> each message was technically unique).