On Sat, 1 Jun 1996 00:21:00 +0100 E.R.Kooi said: >Do you know, in case we lower the dayly limit to say 30, if the overflow >of messages on a certain day will be included in the maximum allowable >number of messages the next day, that is 30 and not 30 + the overflow of >the previous day? The daily limit starts counting again from zero each time the list is freed. Thus, if there are 5 messages waiting (whether or not they are there because a previous daily limit was hit) they're counted toward the new day's limit. Note again though: the count is reset EACH time the list is freed as well as as at the start of a new day. So if you have had 20 posts by 08:00, HOLD the list, then FREE it even 10 seconds later, you've also reset the counter back to zero so your daily limit starts all over again. Also note that when a daily limit is reached the list isn't automatically freed the next day - the list owner has to do that. (We do have a couple of lists that get freed automatically but that's because something we set up issues the appropriate FREE commands to LISTSERV on a schedule.) -- Bill Gruber City University of New York