On 11/18/97 6:25 PM CST, Les Moskowitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote... >On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, John Witherspoon wrote: > >> What is the best way to shut down a list temporarily? >> >> For instance, say someone is a sole owner of a list and has clueless >> subscribers who may want to get off but can't without the owner's help, or >> say someone wants to shut a highly spam-attractive list down while he's >> away to prevent the chance of an attack while he's not around to take >> corrective action... > >and was answered by Glenn Alperin: > >> You can put the list on hold. >> >> Send the following command to LISTSERV: >> >> hold listname >> >> and when you return, you can take the list off of hold by sending the >> following comand to LISTSERV: >> >> free listname >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Glenn > >I don't think that will help with the spam messages. They won't appear >while the list is being held, but as soon as you free the list, all >the held messages will be processed. I believe that if you just LOCK the list, it will reject all messages that anyone attempts to post to it. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| "Do not take life too seriously; [log in to unmask] | you will never get out of it alive." [log in to unmask] | - Elbert Hubbard Finger for PGP | http://www.tezcat.com/~adamb