Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Rebooting the computer should not affect LISTSERV in any way as far as >these messages are concerned. I only see two explanations: > >1. The reboot causes the mail server to resubmit these messages somehow. > Has anyone ever seen this happen, with messages coming back for their second review, I wonder? >2. The messages were in hold status (jobh) and you have a script that > renames *.jobh to *.job before restarting LISTSERV. > Ditto this? >Or of course they came back from the usenet gateway another time, etc. > This is what Maureen had felt that it was -- Something to do with the history file for rec.music.dylan on american.edu's news server? (I think this was after consulting with both you and Jim McIntosh.) She adjusted her daily message limit very high, and I believe the history file at american.edu was made much larger? The hope was that this would prevent repeats from coming back again. It's never entirely solved the problem, although there was improvement at first. I wonder if adjustment of the history file at the news server level is something that needs to be done periodically (?) Anyway ... Thanks Eric, for the reply. :-) George sitting in for Maureen HWY61-L