Sorry, It doesn't help.  I want to deal with the case where the
users does not know about (or has failed to issue) the SET
NOMAIL command; and the list owner does not know that the
users is leaving on vacation.

In such a case I don't want the user to come home an find 50
messages from Listserv.  Nor do I want everyone in the list
getting an "I'm on vacation" message from Joe every time any
message is sent to the list.  --Mike

>>> Rob Brenner <[log in to unmask]> 07/21/99 12:27pm >>>
Hope this helps...

http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/owner.html#5.3.1

5. Setting Subscription Options For Subscribers
5.3. Options that may be set
5.3.1. Mail/NOMail

Setting this option to Mail indicates that the subscriber will
receive
mail from the list. NOMail is the complementary command that
stops mail but leaves the user subscribed to the list. (NOMail is
often
a good compromise for users who are leaving the office for
vacation
or on extended business trips, and who don't want a full mailbox
on
their return.) The format of the messages received is controlled
by
the DIGEST/INDEX/NODIGEST/NOINDEX options (see below).



5.3.2. DIGest/NODIGest

Causes the subscriber to receive one posting per digest cycle
(typically
daily) rather than individual messages as they are processed by
LISTSERV.

In version 1.8b and later, the MAIL/NOMAIL option has been
isolated from
DIGEST/INDEX. The MAIL/NOMAIL option controls
whether messages should be delivered, and the
DIGEST/INDEX/NODIGEST/NOINDEX option controls the format
in which
messages
should be delivered. Thus, switching to NOMAIL and back to
MAIL now
preserves the digest/index/normal delivery setting. To provide as
much compatibility with the old syntax as possible, the four
options
operate as follows:

DIGEST: enable digest delivery mode (which negates INDEX),
enable mail
delivery. No change from version 1.8a.

INDEX: enable index delivery mode (which negates DIGEST),
enable mail
delivery. No change from version 1.8a.

NOMAIL: disable mail delivery. No change from version 1.8a.

MAIL: restore mail delivery, without altering the
digest/index/normal
delivery setting (new behavior). For compatibility with 1.8a, if mail
delivery was already active, the MAIL option negates
INDEX/DIGEST. Thus,
a user going from NOMAIL to MAIL will keep his previous
delivery options, whereas a user going from DIGEST or INDEX to
MAIL will
in fact deactivate index/digest mode.

To revert from digest/index subscription mode to normal delivery,
you
can use either the MAIL option as before, or the
NODIGEST/NOINDEX option. The NODIGEST and NOINDEX
options were actually
present in versions 1.7f and 1.8a, as synonyms for
the MAIL option. In other words, you can update your instructions
to
indicate that the DIGEST/INDEX options are negated by the
NODIGEST/NOINDEX options, even if you are still running an
older version
of the software.

Note that in extreme cases, subscribers using the DIGEST
option may
receive more than one digest per cycle if the digest limit is
reached
before the end of the cycle.

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