At 20:58 02/02/1999 +0100, you wrote:

|2. Is there any way I could force the digest to be sent out
|manually?

An individual can force a CURRENT digest to be sent prematurely by

SET listname MAIL

SET listname DIGEST

Archived digests though don't exist per se.

If you do have a LISTSERV(R) notebook archive, then a LISTSERV command of
(say)

S * IN listname FROM YESTERDAY TO YESTERDAY

would produce an index listing with an appropriate GETPOST listname #
that could be sent back to the LISTSERV to retrieve the postings.

Ditto if your LISTSERV (1.8d beta) supports a WEB int.f

/Pete