The way I dealt with this was to set my list on hold, get the header, change
the settings for  Send= editor,hold
Then I sent the header back, freed the list, and had an opportunity to
reject every message that had a houston.rr. in it.
It took a while, but saved everyone from the swell of old messages.

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV list owners' forum
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dennis Budd
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:29 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posting problem


On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Michael S. Johnson wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, John, Laura (MSNBCi) wrote:
>> "...your message will be reprocessed automatically once the list owner
>> releases the list."
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how to clear the pending jobs, since this is a
>> result of the nasty RR problem?
>
>To "release the list", send the text "FREE IMUS" to your list server.  In
>general, to release a list, send "FREE <listname>" in the body of a
>message to the list server.  Messages queued up will then be processed.

"Messages queued up will then be processed".

And these messages will include all the pending duplicates.  I think
the question was actually how to clear them before releasing the list.
To the best of my knowledge there isn't any way, at least not for a
listowner.

Dennis

>
>See http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/appenda.html.
>
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