The setting "Send= Editor,Hold" and the situation of a list being on "hold"
are completely unrelated.

See http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/owner-faq.stm#1 for what to do when a list
is on hold.

Also, what was the rest of that error?  There should have been several more
lines explaining what the problem was.

Nathan

At 09:48 AM 2/9/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>We are using 1.8e in Solaris 7.  It just happened few days ago when all
>the posts to a list got queued in ~spool.  I viewed a particular queued
>with jobview and see the header:
>
><HDR1>1 M ECON-FACULTY $NOJOB$ *MAILER* INCOMING MAIL
><HDR2>
>Received: (from root@localhost)
>         by weber2.sscnet.ucla.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i180jkxI027150
>         for [log in to unmask]; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:45:46
>
>The log showed:
>
>9 Feb 2004 01:17:20 From [ANONYMOUS]@LISTSERV.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU: LIST AVAIL
>9 Feb 2004 01:17:56 Processing file 234097 from
>[log in to unmask]
>9 Feb 2004 01:17:56 To   [log in to unmask]: The distribution of your
>message dated  Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:17:52 -0800 (PST) (...)
>
>the user received:
>
>The distribution of your message dated Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:45:31 -0600
>with subject "Kudos to Sean P. Klein, one of our Undergraduate Econ
>Majors!"  has been postponed because the ECON-FACULTY list is held. No
>action is required from you; your message will be reprocessed
>automatically once the list owner releases the list.
>
>The sender is the Editor of the list (list attribute is send=editor,hold).
>It just happened right after the log:
>
>4 Feb 2004 13:22:37 >>> Error X'00000011' opening file
>/u/ssc/listserv/lists/econ-faculty.log0402a <<<
>
>I tried to delete that file and all econ-faculty.db* (and did a search so
>db* would be re-created), renamed the *.jobh to *.job and started the
>ListServ.  But it was no use, the *.job was renamed to *.jobh and the user
>still got a 'notice' mail.  I even tried to delete the whole list (I moved
>all notebook to another directory), re-created the new one and tried to
>send a fresh post to the newly created lists (same name) but still failed
>miserably.  The list has been working well until last week.  Would anyone
>help - I just want to get the post out no matter what.....  Thanks for
>your help.
>
>Shinn