There has been a "loop" on 9370-L this evening. I say "loop" because I am almost certain this is not due to LISTSERV. A zillion (well actually 21) copies of the same mailfile have been distributed to the list. The mail body itself does not contain anything strange at all - no complaint from a gateway or mailer. The file came from DEDOUREK@UNB (MVS/XA JES2 site, probably running UCLA-Mail?) If you look at the 'Date:' fields in the distributed mail files, you will see that all of them are differents. There are two possibilities: 1. These were generated by LISTSERV. This is impossible since the timezone is AST whereas the timezone of LISTSERV@HEARN is MET. 2. They were generated by something else. In that case, we have several input files to LISTSERV and this is not a LISTSERV bug. Note that LISTSERV would have stopped after (the list's) DAILY-THRESHOLD files anyway, which defaults to 50. The present situation is this: - The list is held, and will remain so until the problem is identified and fixed. - I have purged over 600 files on HEARN-FRMOP22, which was very tedious (I wish you could just PURGE FRMOP22 /9370-L MAIL/ :-) ). For each file I had to do a Q F spoolid VM. I didn't do it by hand of course, but with the REJECTED BY TASK XXX - PREVIOUS COMMAND ACTIVE it took a lot of passes to have the link cleaned up. - I am assuming that a bunch of files are accumulating on the reader of [log in to unmask] Hans-Ulrich will have to purge them manually... - Rob has cleaned up the list archives (I have a copy of the original log if anyone's interested). Eric PS: Here's an excerpt of a few of the headers...