On 22 Jan 2004, at 17:08, Paul Russell wrote:

>Before we migrated our LISTSERV service from a woefully underpowered box, we
>discussed the possibility of switching from NETWORKED mode to STANDALONE mode,
>just so we could eliminate the overhead of non-distribution jobs from other
>servers.

And...?  Recently I've seen a few (very few, thank goodness) cases where
spammers have essentially stalled us due to our having to handle tens of
thousands of these.  Is the above usable as an emergency on/off switch?

                                              -Kary