On Jun 10,  6:56pm, Les Moskowitz wrote:
> >    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

        Besides the other reasons given, I've used it to hold the list while I
removed binary and other monster files from active list archives.  Hold the
list, get the file, edit it, put it back, free the list.  No mail that comes
through in the mean time gets lost from the archive when I replace the old
file.

David