On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence B. York wrote: > On 10 Jun 97 at 17:17, Les wrote: > >> What is the purpose of this command? Is it possible for the list owner >> to review those messages which are being held and allow them to be >> selectively processed? Or is this a command which has value to the site >> maintainer, but not to the list owner? > > HOLD listname -- holds a list preventing new postings from being > processed until a FREE command is sent. You will not, as a list owner, be > able to review those posts being held. It is usually used by a Site > Maintainer during transitions of lists from one server to another (for > example). Why, then, is it a command which is available to list owners? It doesn't seem to be of any use to us. Les