[Mailman-Users] Removing messages unread

I have a fast number of messages in various mailman lists I run, virtually all of them spam. I now run SpamAssassin on the lists, so hope this is over.

But now I would like to remove all old, unread messages from these lists.

I looked this up in the FAQ, and found an item (1.12) which seemed to address this problem; but unfortunately I did not understand the first step:

1. Delete all current requests for the list using the web Admin. This will make the file request.db empty for that list.

What exactly is the "web Admin"? Does it mean I have to go through all 1000 messages on the web?.

-- Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: 00353-86-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland