Actually I take that back.  2.12.10 refers to the <user> Daily-Threshold,
not the <list> Daily-threshold.  These are two different things and the
manual is actually correct in Appendix B where it says you must manually
free the list after it goes over threshold.  So if you have

* Daily-Threshold= 200,5

then this means if an individual user sends a sixth message to the list
in one day (reckoned from midnight to midnight local server time), he can't
post again until after midnight.  That happens automatically.

But if the list processes 200 messages from midnight to sometime before
the next midnight, and a 201st message comes before that next midnight,
the list itself goes on HOLD until the list owner or a postmaster explicitly
FREEs it.

Too much stuff, too little time :)

Nathan

On Fri, 12 Sep 97 15:00:19 EDT you said:
>On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:22:36 -0500 Bill Harrison said:
>>My question is this. When a list (1.8c)exceeds its threshold limit,
>>and the server puts the list on hold, does it not reset itself
>>automatically at midnight and go back to distributing messages.
>
>No it does not.  If your manual says this it is a <very> old manual as
>there was a typo in the original manual three years ago that was fixed
>soon after the release.  However I do see that 2.12.10 could be construed
>this way, and I will fix that in a later manual release.  What
>is meant is that the <counter> resets at midnight but any pre-midnight
>HOLD because of going over the threshold is not cleared--this must be
>done manually because for all LISTSERV knows the threshold was reached
>because mail was looping and you don't want to start a loop going again
>by just arbitrarily FREEing the list.
>
>Nathan