Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I went the SET NOMAIL -> FREE route and was able to prevent more than 700 pieces of "junk" mail from being sent out. LISTSERV was also nice enough to report which users were already in NOMAIL mode so I sent an additional command restoring these folks back to their original configuration after I was done with the purge. The "Send= Editor,Hold" idea is a good one too but in this case I'm glad I didn't have to see those 700+ pieces of mail in *my* mailbox! ..Chris..