Thanks, Ben.

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> 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
> 
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