On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:49:33 -0500, Paul Karagianis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Is the above usable as an emergency on/off switch?

No, especially if you are a registered backbone site (which STJOHNS is).  Each
LISTSERV site maintains (periodically updated) tables of the other backbone
sites to share the X-SPAM and other notifications, including DISTRIBUTE jobs.
Even if you set your server to STANDALONE, if you are in the registered list,
all other sites will continue to send you their notices, based on their local
tables.  You need to de-register from the backbone

   http://www.lsoft.com/regform.html

and then run in STANDALONE mode for 15-30 days before you can really feel the
effects of shutting this down.  And some older sites still running with
outdated tables, may still send you backbone traffic, even a year later.

STANDALONE also removes your site from CataList (the worldwide list of
LISTSERV lists).

This needs to be a carefully thought-out process, definitely not something
done in a hurry.