>their mail server will lose it, or... Every once in a while, I'll come >across one of our lists that's been locked for months just because the >list owner messed up and didn't say 'NOLOCK'. We use a simple Perl script in order to observe all 'locked' lists. This script automatically sends a report about all 'locked' lists to the listserv admin. When I receive such a report, I contact the list owner who locked the list and ask him if this is ok. Siegfried