>Why does my List Server delay a new List member's request to send to a
>List for 10 minutes?

So if someone subscribes to a bunch of lists at once and tries to 
send spam to them all LISTSERV has time to detect it.  See 
<http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/lsv-faq.stm#_Toc116444807> for more 
information.
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