On Sat, 18 Jun 1994 15:54:13 EDT Anthea Tillyer <[log in to unmask]> said: >Another question, Eric: When the freed messages roll out, are they >counted as part of the following day's 50 Yes, they are! So the penalty for ignoring your decision and continuing to flood the list with junk messages is not a simple delay of a few hours in processing the verbiage. In practice, most messages are a reply to another message, so as the list goes on hold, people will mostly stop posting. >And supposing you don't free the message one day, does it stay held the >next day and so on, indefinitely, until you think to free it? Yes, to give you a chance to delete the messages in the queue, if it's a mailing loop. But only the LISTSERV manager can do that. Eric