The best way to deal with this is to delete this months archive on your list.
It's not hard.  The command is:  Put yourlistname log9611 PW=yourpassword
and then send to listserv.  Then the listserv will send a message back to you
saying log9611 archive has been deleted.  Then you can free your list
from there and you are back in service again.  This usually occurs when
your archives have reached their space quota.  You can email them at
[log in to unmask] and request for more archive space if you think it would
benefit you.  The cost is very cheap.
 
 
Sue
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* i could have been you.  you could have been me.*
*         melissa etheridge, john shanks         *
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Helge Niska wrote:
 
> Can somebody explain what the following error message means? Such messages
> keep coming in almost every day. All I know is that the list is held and I
> have to send a FREE command to Listserv every time I receive this message -
> but why I get it and what "corrective action" I should take, I do not know.
> Needless to say that the so called explanation is totally wasted upon me --
> "-> Abstract: Unspecified error (98954) - refer to the VMS RMS
> documentation". I don't have any VMS RMS documentation; why should I? I run
> a mailing list, not a VMS site.
>
> Frustratedly,
>
> [log in to unmask]
> LANTRA-L list owner
>
> >Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a)
> > with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:42:27 +0100
> >Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:42:26 +0200
> >From: "L-Soft list server at SEGATE (1.8c)" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Message ("An error occurred while logging mail to the...")
> >To: Helge Niska <[log in to unmask]>
> >Message-id: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
> >
> >An error occurred  while logging mail to the archives  of the LANTRA-L list.
> >An incomplete copy of the message might  be present in the archive file. The
> >list is being held to prevent further occurrences of this error. Please take
> >corrective action  and issue  a "FREE  LANTRA-L" command  when you  want the
> >message to be reprocessed.
> >
> >Serious error occurred - traceback follows
> >------------------------------------------
> >>>> Error X'00A41453' opening file LISTS:[LANTRA-L]LANTRA-L.LOG9611B <<<
> > -> Severity: Error
> > -> Facility: VMS Record Management Services
> > -> Abstract: Unspecified error (98954) - refer to the VMS RMS documentation
> > -> VMS info: %RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
> > -> I/O mode: Record write
> >
> >
>