>Hi,
>
>A couple of problems I need help with:
>
>1. How do you delete a list - can't find it in the manual anywhere . . .

See http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/lsv-faq.stm#5.24 for instructions.

>2. I've been playing with creating lists by email which are on a DBMS back
>end. The log keeps saying it's created a column (which it needs to do in the
>subscriber table) - but the column doesn't appear even after the first
>subscriber appears to be in there:

Try setting DEBUG_DBMS_FLAGS to 1 in your LISTSERV site
configuration, restarting LISTSERV, and then creating a DBMS mailing
list.  This will make the actual commands that LISTSERV is sending to
the database to appear in LISTSERV's log file; this should give you a
better idea of what's going on.

Thanks,
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Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/