On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Brett Watts wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Ok, I did a dumb thing.  I had some bad email address in a student
> mailing list and could not get rid of them.  They were in the
> format of
> first.last@college..  The address was never completed for some reason.
>
> So I found the bad email address in the mailing list's .LIST file and
> edited with NotePad.  The mailing list disappeared after that and gave
> the following error message:
>
> Serious error occurred - traceback follows
> ------------------------------------------
>>>> Error X'00280073' opening file C:\LISTSERV\MAIN\BOGUS_NAME-U.LIST
> <<<
> -> Severity: Error
> -> Facility: LFxxx routines
> -> Abstract: Internal file structure corrupted
> -> I/O mode: Record read
>
> My question is can I resurrect the Mailing List from the bad .LIST
> file
> or do I need to rebuild that mailing list from scratch?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

If you have a file called BOGUS-NAME-U.LIST you can use it to replace
the corrupt list. The easiest way to do this with your Listserv up
and running is to "get" that file, then "PUT BOGUS_NAME_U.LIST
px=xxx" via email. Then look at your Listserv log to repeat the
changes that were made to that list since the old version was created.