On Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:41:44 EDT Ben Chi <[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>Probing this just a little deeper,  is it necessary to instruct LISTSERV
>to delete <listname> DBNAMES and <listname> DBINDEX so as to force a new
>index to be built the next time  someone does a database search, or will
>LISTSERV automatically detect that that the index is stale and take care
>of it? I have  always done the delete, but Gruber  implies that it's not
>necessary.
 
If you use the PUT command, you don't need to erase the index. If you use
CMS ERASE or the like, you do.
 
  Eric