> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Brian Crawford wrote: > > I have a list (WORLD-SERIES) that I would like to shut down until the 1997 > > baseball playoffs start next September. The whole premise of the list was > > that it was created only to talk about the 1996 baseball playoffs and World > > Series. It was successful and we plan to do the same thing next year. > > What I would prefer to do is keep all my current subscribers, but have the > > list "deactivated" until we need it again. Here's what I was thinking about > > doing: > > > > 1. Set all current subscribers to nopost and nomail Winship replied: > > It would be simpler to change the header to Send= Owner, wouldn't it? > No one but you could post to the list, but you could still send a note > from time to time if you thought it appropriate. Makes much sense ... > > 2. Change the list to *Subscribe= by owner Is it not Subscribe=Closed or maybe you want people to enroll in advance for next year championship ? > > 4. Change the Welcome file to explain the situation > That would be a good idea. If you don't close the sub until the list is active again, it's almost a necessity... If you sub someone now, you may get back some "I never sub'ed to that F***ing list" when you go up again next year ... Renew=someweeks_before_the_World_series as suggested is also a good thing or make it a Yearly thing around this date (if it is not already done ;-) You can also set the Auto-delete to yes,full-auto won't get bothered by much bounces (I recently went down from 2000-4000 to below a 100 a day)... I wonder if it is possible to "freeze" a list by GETting it and never PUTting it back ? In a perfect world the list should stay LOCKed all the time. Isn't sub/unsub and option mods prevented when the list is LOCKed ? Only my .0145$US (.02$CAN) PS Brian: You'll never hear me about the Expos on this list, I don't follow baseball ;-) -- Eric Paul-Hus, BLUES-L