Thanks, Ben. > -----Original Message----- > From: LISTSERV List Owners' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Ben Parker > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 2:40 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [LSTOWN-L] list under attack > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:38:45 +0000, "Crovo, Bob" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >I came in this morning to an email announcing that my list was being held because too many > emails had been sent. When I responded I'd freed over a thousand emails. That prompted > another Hold. Do I have a way of previewing and I hope deleting all these pent-up emails? > > The default daily threshold is 100. If you have set yours to 1000, then > that is probably a mistake, unless your list normal traffic level is 500 > msgs/day. (Tip: set the daily threshold to 2x your average msgs/day.) > > The held messages are stored in a location not accessible to view, but > presumably your list is currently set to > > Send= Private > > What you can do BEFORE you free the list is change the configuration as > follows: > > Send= Editor, Hold, Confirm, non-member > Editor= [log in to unmask] > > Then issue the FREE command. > > Now all the held messages will come to you as editor, and you must approve > them to allow them to go to the list. Or you can delete them. You can also > examine them for possible filtering/blocking to eliminate further attacks. > > Once sanity is restored, you can set the list back to > > Send= Private > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the LSTOWN-L list: > write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > or click the following link: > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTOWN-L&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTOWN-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTOWN-L&A=1