Your right. 
I only just learned of those options but didn't think of them when I wrote. 
Live and Learn

By the way do you know how I can get a private confidential list web accessible but only to the lists subscribers. I am in the midst of a huge list migration and I have dozens of users screaming at me this morning. Any help would be welcome. 

Mitch

>>> [log in to unmask] 06/12/02 10:17:02 AM >>>
Good Advice BUT perhaps due to the newbie question, maybe the questioner
could have meant SERVE out (for a subscriber) or HOLD for a list since
there was some implication having to do with subscriber actions.

Just a thought.


/Pete

  At 09:55 06/12/2002 Wednesday, Mitch Rerek wrote:
>Doing a GET command (vanilla - like GET My_LIST) will lock a list.
>
>To unlock a list send
>UNLOCK My_List command
>
>To GET a list without locking it send
>GET My_List (nolock
>
>To find out if a list is locked issue the GET command, if it has been
>locked by the owner (I'm assuming you are an administrator) you get a
>response telling that the list is locked with the name of the person who
>locked it.
>
>Hope this helps.
>I'm a newbie too!
>
>
>Mitch Rerek
>Senior Information Technology Consultant
>OIT Customer Support
>West Virginia University
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>(304) 293-4444  ext 2256
>
>
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 06/12/02 9:48:37 AM >>>
>Hi everybody! Being relatively new to listserv administration, I have a
>couple questions regarding the locking of a list. How, exactly, does a
>list get locked? Presumably, it would be from sending a certain number
>of wrong commands to the list, or possibly from a non-listowner
>attempting to send commands to the list. Is it possbile to find out if a
>list is locked, other than sending a command to it and the command being
>rejected by an email stating "the xxxx-l list is locked"?
>Please let me have any suggestions!
>Thanks
>Ben
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