I have a listowner who wants to delete the accumulated messages for a list that has been held since 11/23 because the message count is roughly 4 times the daily limit and from experience he knows that sending even one day's limit at once will overflow the mailboxes of a fair/large percentage of his subscribers causing n times 500 error messaages. When I check the rdr for the listname account, there is nothing in the reader - WHERE are these messages stored pending the 'free' command ? and how can I purge them ? TIA - mike