At 10:19 08/22/2000 Tuesday, Dennis Budd wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Pete Weiss wrote:
>>
>>Or use the LISTSERV(R) PROBE feature of all recipients (one time).
>>
>>/Pete
>
>This could be useful, even if annoying to some of the list members, in
>situations where otherwise you don't have a clue.
>
>How does one do this?

http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/developer/developer.html#3

A properly composed body-of-text message should be able to avoid the "annoying" aspect of having such a posting distributed to all subscribers e.g.,

Dear Fellow xxxx-L Subscribers:

You are receiving this from the list-owner because we are having difficulties with analyzing a recurring list problem.

Kindly do NOT respond unless you are having a problem with the list, in which case write a short message to: listname-REQUEST@listhost

Sincerely,

listowner