On 02 24, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Shinn Wu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We ran L-Soft list server 1.8e on Solaris Sparc 9 machine for over ten 
> years.  Two days ago we had disk I/O errors which were corrected.  But  
> three lists (out of more than three hundreds) had problems in member's 
> inability to post.  The configurations of those lists didn't change, but 
> every post to those lists resulted in:
> 
> The distribution of your message dated Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:27:22 -0800 with
> subject "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" has been  postponed because the
> LLLLLL list is held. No action is required from you; your message will be
> reprocessed automatically once the list owner releases the list.
> 
> Those lists were private and subscribers had posted for years.  There 
> were *.jobh in spool directory.  I renamed them from *.jobh to *.job, 
> ListServ processed it and renamed it back to *.jobh and sent a 
> notification (same as above) to the original sender.  I removed one post 
> and asked the sender to send, it was again in spool with *.jobh.  I 
> restarted the ListServ many times, and also rebooted the ListServ many 
> times but it didn't help.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated. 

Did you try sending a "free listname" command to your Listserv? If not, try it.