At 10:30 12/16/2002 Monday, Val Christensen wrote: Here's an alternative that I think this will work ... have said subscriber email: LISTSERV@host1, LISTSERV@host2, ..., LISTSERV@host3 with the single command: CONFIRM * before they go on vacation. (They may got some extraneous messages about unrelated lists being "locked" -- I just found three at LOUISVILLE.) /Pete