I'm new to the postmaster business so I made an error today that I would like to avoid repeating. A list had 67 messages on hold (19 subscribers) because the threshold of 100 was exceeded [the instructor tried to use it for an interactive class discussion :-( ] I FREEd the list so the 67*19 messages swamped the mail system temporarily. Q1 How could I determine the number of held messages? Q2 Is there a way to feed them out gradually? Q3 I take it that LISTSERV is not suitable for this--any suggestions? Earth Day every day, Kevin KEVIN D. BRUNSON (219)631-8292 OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY COMPUTING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 46556 ******** DISPLAY YOUR WIT AND SENSE OF HUMOR HERE ****** <:-) VM Programmer needed immediately )-:<