okay!sorry for the use of bandwidth!

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Winship wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Michele Francis wrote:
> > Sometime if use e-mail get command you can lock the list if you don't
> > specify nolock.
>
> The person wasn't asking aboutg LOCK, he was asking about HOLD.
>
> LOCK and HOLD are totally different functions and have *nothing* to do
> with each other.  You can run a LOCKed list from now until doomsday and
> list postings will be distributed to the list as long as the list has
> not been held.
>
> HOLD has to do with distribution of list postings, nothing to do with
> the subscription list.
>
> LOCK has to do with the subscription list itself, nothing to do with
> whether postings are distributed to the list or not.
>
>
> Douglas
>