On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 15:13:15 -0400, Listserv Admin <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Since yesterday, when mail is sent to PAINPAL-L, it is distributed
>and appears in the list archives. Then the list is held and a notice is
>sent to the list owners and I find a second copy of the mail in Listserv's
>spool directory.  I delete the second copy in Listserv's spool, free the
>list and then next time mail is sent to the list (from anywhere) this
>process repeats itself.  I just can't firgure it out at all... has this
>happen to anyone else here?  Any pointers most helpful as the List Owners
>are pretty upset about now.  --Trish
>
>
>Listserv's log reports:
>4 Apr 1999 14:47:12 Processing file 177158 from [log in to unmask]
>4 Apr 1999 14:47:12 Processing mail from [log in to unmask] for
>PAINPAL-L
>4 Apr 1999 14:47:13 Digest size limit exceeded, sending special issue...
>4 Apr 1999 14:47:13 Reindexing PAINPAL-L LOG9904A...
>Load_index: V=0 T=0 size=192k
>4 Apr 1999 14:47:13 To   [log in to unmask]: An error occurred while
>logging mail  to the archives of the PAINPAL-L list. (...)

Is there more to the log or what does the actual error message sent to
[log in to unmask] say?

I suspect a disk/file problem that prevents the indexing from occurring
correctly which will 'hold' the list.  This will continue until the problem
is resolved.