Pete Weiss wrote:

>At 10:27 6/10/2005 Friday, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
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>>Send your list@server_name an email. In the body say  free list_name. 
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>Also, make sure you observe any new messages (probably sent to list-owner and/or -admin) that may result whne the FREE is issued or soon thereaferr.
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>Typically, a list-owner has:
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>1) explicitly held the list (why?)
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>2) implcitly held the list by GET the list definition headers
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>or 
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>3) LISTSERV has a problem often related to archive storage
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Yup. We find the most common problem is the list creator mis-spelling 
the archive notebook name when the list is set up. As a result, just 
FREE'ing the list is no good and you'll have to correct the underlying 
error. Otherwise the list will just be held again on the next posting.

Scotty