Woody, you wrote,

<<  I have printed out the instructions John Rodgers kindly offered
recently for suspending mail delivery  unfortunately my old version of
CServe (2.6.1) apparently will not allow me to send a message with
something in the "subject" line.  >>

   You want nothing in the subject line.  In order to do this using
Compu$erve software, hit the spacebar once.  In the body of the message,
type:  set vanagon nomail

        George/ATL
        '89 Westy, Wernher

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