Thanks Stan, Both the bogus list and bogus address are different every time. It's slowed down now with only a few hundred this morning. With several thousand in a time I'd normally have a few dozen, I was interested not only in getting rid of them, but seeing what the rest of the world was seeing. Guess I was a chosen one ;-) Not hearing from others appears to be good news! Thanks again, wayne Stan Horwitz wrote: > On Nov 24, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Wayne T Smith wrote: > >> I've received 2-3000 error reports recently (since last evening) ... >> about 4 per minute at the moment. All have a bogus list name and >> bogus from address. For example: >> >> DISPLAYED: error report from MAIL.ENL.COM.HK >> >> This happening to others, or am I just a chosen one? Anyone suggest >> an action? > > I get tons of crap like that all the time. Its spam and it rarely gets > distributed to any of the lists on my server. > > You can instruct LISTSERV to ignore nuisance email addresses by > sending your LISTSERV email with the command > > quiet serve "address" drop off pw=xxxx > > If you mess up and accidently do that for a legitimate address, you > can fix it with the command ... > > quiet serve "address" pw=xxxx