Thanks, Ben. I appreciate your suggestion to adjust configuration settings to prevent spam. I've done that. I just became a new owner of an already-existing list. So in addition to cleaning the spam out of the archives, I've changed the configuration. The list is set up to receive posts from non-members. So I added the requirement that posts from non-members must be confirmed. We'll see if that stops the problem. If not, we may have to restrict posting to subscribers. All the best, Pat > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:38:18 -0700 > From: Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: editing or deleting current archive notebook log > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:57:24 -0500, Pat Williams <[log in to unmask]> = > wrote: > > >I've just cleaned all the spam out of my list's old archive notebook = > logs. > >But the current month's (December's) log contains nothing but spam = > posts, so > >I'd like to delete it or edit it to remove the spam. The simplest thing = > is > >to delete it, but if I do that now, in the middle of the month, will a = > new > >December log be started when new posts are sent this month? > > In general, yes. However, it depends if you correctly delete the archive= > so > that the archive index files are also deleted. Then LISTSERV acts as if = > there > had simply been no posts unitl the next message comes along. > > If you are getting so much spam to your list, perhaps you should adjust = > the > list configuration settings so that less spam makes it to your list. >