On Thu, 25 Jul 1991 22:43:27 EST Stan Horwitz <OASIS@TEMPLEVM> said: >In reference to the listserv message below. What exactly does this mean? >What is a checksum error? The message, as you can see, does not seem to >insistant that I issue this LSVLDELT ... command. It says that 'I may' >want to issue it. How do I know for sure whether or not to issue it? A new list has been created at your site, or the header of an existing list has been changed, anyway LISTSERV decided it was time to send a list of lists update. It did so. These updates contain a checksum. When your server processed the update for ITS OWN data, it found a checksum error. This is bad news, but what can it do about it? If the error is due to a bug and it tries to resend the data and get a new error, it would then get a loop. This is never supposed to happen - not unless local spool files are lost (and even then it would have to happen at the "right time"), or someone edited one of the files manually, or typed HX while the server was updating them, etc. Eric