Hagai,

Try to hold the list, I don't know if it will work but what do you have
to loose but angry subscribers!

Chapter 13.4.2 in the owners manual

The command is
HOLD listname PW= yourpassword

To FREE the list again use FREE etc

Paul.
  Paul Clarke
  Online Curriculum Information Project Officer
  Open Access Unit
  Gabba Towers
  Level 6, 411 Vulture Street
  Woolloongabba Brisbane Qld 4102
  Ph:  07 3406 2755
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> ----------
> From:         Hagai Agmon-Snir
> Sent:         Tuesday, 10 February 1998 8:28
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Getting rejection to the same posting every hour
>
> I am the listowner of a mailing list on a listserv-lite site. Since
> this
> afternoon, all those who post to the mailing list get the following
> message
> every exact hour, claiming that they have sent the same message
> before. The
> original messages were all distributed to the list; it is just the
> senders
> who are still getting the error messages. Any ideas? It is midnight
> here,
> and I am getting some unhappy notes, and I would like to have some
> ideas
> before I call the site manager in the morning (we both are not experts
> of
> listserv).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hagai
>
> Here is an example of such a message (that I get, since I posted the
> list too):
>
> Date:         Mon, 9 Feb 1998 21:00:07 +0000
> From: "L-Soft list server at School for Educational Leadership (1.8c)"
>               <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:      Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]
> To: Hagai Agmon-Snir <[log in to unmask]>
> Status:
>
> Your message  is being returned to  you unprocessed because it
> appears to have
> already been distributed to the CULTURE list. That is, a message with
> identical
> text (but  possibly with different  mail headers) has  been posted to
> the list
> recently, either by you or by someone else. If you have a good reason
> to resend
> this message  to the  list (for instance  because you have  been
> notified  of a
> hardware failure with  loss of data), please  alter the text of  the
> message in
> some way and resend  it to the list. Note that altering  the
> "Subject:" line or
> adding blank lines at  the top or bottom of the message  is not
> sufficient; you
> should  instead add  a  sentence or  two  at  the top  explaining  why
> you  are
> resending the  message, so that the  other subscribers understand why
> they are
> getting two copies of the same message.
>
> ------------------------ Rejected message (70 lines)
> --------------------------
> Received: from [147.235.8.74] ([147.235.8.74]) by lafa.sel.org.il
> (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA02007 for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 9
> Feb
> 1998 15:41:18 +0200
> X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
> Message-Id: <v03102800b1048312d20c@[147.235.8.66]>
> In-Reply-To:
>  <[log in to unmask]>
> References: <v03102807b1038c34d0fd@[147.235.8.66]>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:39:26 +0200
> To: [log in to unmask]
> From: Hagai Agmon-Snir <[log in to unmask]>
>
> {and here comes the text of my original posting}
>