On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence B. York wrote:

> On 10 Jun 97 at 17:17, Les wrote:
>
>> What is the purpose of this command?  Is it possible for the list owner
>> to review those messages which are being held and allow them to be
>> selectively processed?  Or is this a command which has value to the site
>> maintainer, but not to the list owner?
>
>    HOLD listname -- holds a list preventing new postings from being
> processed until a FREE command is sent.  You will not, as a list owner, be
> able to review those posts being held.  It is usually used by a Site
> Maintainer during transitions of lists from one server to another (for
> example).

Why, then, is it a command which is available to list owners?  It doesn't
seem to be of any use to us.

                                              Les