> A listowner has a special purpose list that got held because it's
> daily threshold was triggered, but he didn't notice the error message.
> Since then, several hundred messages (jobs) piled up in listserv's
> spool directory.   He now wants to free the list, but doesn't want
> all those messages to go out, he'd just like to delete them instead
> (besides, they'd just exceed the threshold again).
>
> Is there a way for him to do it?  It seems the only way is for the
> the LISTSERV administrator to clean out the spool directory.

He could change the list header to:
Send= Editor,Hold,Confirm
Then .QQ  out the POST_EDITOR template then FREE the list.
All messages would go to him for approval, then just don't approve them.
Change the header back, take out the .QQ and he's back in business.

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John Lyon
L-Soft international, Inc.
http://www.lsoft.com