On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Bill Verity wrote:

> These are *JOB* files that listserv has not processed yet. We run  
> 18 smtp helpers on the outgoing queues and that seems to keep up  
> just fine.  We do *not* run spam assassin or any other filters.  As  
> I said, they would just make our input queues worse, in my  
> opinion.  They would save our readers from looking at spam, so we  
> might do this someday.
>
> I don't know why this bottleneck happened although the queues have  
> been getting worse over the last several months.  It is  
> interesting, in a good way, that a lot of work flows paste all of  
> these queued jobs.  A "Thanks" message often comes right back, and   
> a lot of list traffic gets through.  Listserv takes a "quick" look  
> at incoming files and tries to prioritize the job queue in some  
> fashion.

Bill, don't you have the option of running your lists with  
"Confidential= Yes or Local" and/or "Send= Private"?

This is what I do for most of the lists here. As a result, I rarely  
experience spam being distributed to lists' subscribers.