Good Advice BUT perhaps due to the newbie question, maybe the questioner
could have meant SERVE out (for a subscriber) or HOLD for a list since
there was some implication having to do with subscriber actions.

Just a thought.


/Pete

  At 09:55 06/12/2002 Wednesday, Mitch Rerek wrote:
 >Doing a GET command (vanilla - like GET My_LIST) will lock a list.
 >
 >To unlock a list send
 >UNLOCK My_List command
 >
 >To GET a list without locking it send
 >GET My_List (nolock
 >
 >To find out if a list is locked issue the GET command, if it has been
 >locked by the owner (I'm assuming you are an administrator) you get a
 >response telling that the list is locked with the name of the person who
 >locked it.
 >
 >Hope this helps.
 >I'm a newbie too!
 >
 >
 >Mitch Rerek
 >Senior Information Technology Consultant
 >OIT Customer Support
 >West Virginia University
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 >
 >
 >
 >>>> [log in to unmask] 06/12/02 9:48:37 AM >>>
 >Hi everybody! Being relatively new to listserv administration, I have a
 >couple questions regarding the locking of a list. How, exactly, does a
 >list get locked? Presumably, it would be from sending a certain number
 >of wrong commands to the list, or possibly from a non-listowner
 >attempting to send commands to the list. Is it possbile to find out if a
 >list is locked, other than sending a command to it and the command being
 >rejected by an email stating "the xxxx-l list is locked"?
 >Please let me have any suggestions!
 >Thanks
 >Ben
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