On Sat,  18 Jun  1994 15:54:13  EDT Anthea  Tillyer <[log in to unmask]>
said:
 
>Another  question, Eric:  When the  freed  messages roll  out, are  they
>counted as part of the following day's 50
 
Yes, they are!  So the penalty for ignoring your  decision and continuing
to flood the list with junk messages is not a simple delay of a few hours
in processing  the verbiage. In  practice, most  messages are a  reply to
another message,  so as the  list goes on  hold, people will  mostly stop
posting.
 
>And supposing you don't free the message  one day, does it stay held the
>next day and so on, indefinitely, until you think to free it?
 
Yes, to give you a chance to delete  the messages in the queue, if it's a
mailing loop. But only the LISTSERV manager can do that.
 
  Eric