On Wed, 7 Sep 1994 13:22:16 EDT W. K. (Bill) Gorman <34AEJ7D@CMUVM> wrote: >I get a ton of errors of the following form for all of my lists: >>---------------------------Original message---------------------------- >>The enclosed mail file has been identified as a delivery error for list >>EQUINE-L because it was sent to the reserved 'owner-equine-l' mailbox. >Can anything be done to prevent this? 1. Send a 'LOCK EQUINE-L' command to [log in to unmask] If nobody can "post" anything to the list, no "delivery-error" messages can be generated. Note: this is not a very practical suggestion. :-) 2. Appoint somebody else as the "owner" of the list, and LISTSERV will send the E-mail to him/her, instead of you. I volunteer. (No "smiley", I'm serious!) 3. Create a separate ID on the your system, and appoint that ID as the *first* 'OWNER=' keyword in the list-definition, and specify 'Errors-To= OWNER'. Then, LISTSERV will send those messages *only* to that specific ID, rather than your "home" ID. 4. Analyze the *cause* of each of the "delivery-error" messages, and either politely inform the administrators of the system which generated the "delivery-error", and set the specific ID to 'NOMAIL' status, or ruthlessly delete the offender's ID from your mailing-list.