On 11/18/97 6:25 PM CST, Les Moskowitz <[log in to unmask]>
wrote...

>On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, John Witherspoon wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to shut down a list temporarily?
>>
>> For instance, say someone is a sole owner of a list and has clueless
>> subscribers who may want to get off but can't without the owner's help, or
>> say someone wants to shut a highly spam-attractive list down while he's
>> away to prevent the chance of an attack while he's not around to take
>> corrective action...
>
>and was answered by Glenn Alperin:
>
>> You can put the list on hold.
>>
>> Send the following command to LISTSERV:
>>
>> hold listname
>>
>> and when you return, you can take the list off of hold by sending the
>> following comand to LISTSERV:
>>
>> free listname
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Glenn
>
>I don't think that will help with the spam messages.  They won't appear
>while the list is being held, but as soon as you free the list, all
>the held messages will be processed.

I believe that if you just LOCK the list, it will reject all messages
that anyone attempts to post to it.


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