I get a fair number of these bounce messages that appear to be caused by people sending messages to LISTSERV as if they were talking to a person. When the message beigins with the word "To", the undocumented LISTSERV TO command causes the reply to be redirected to a garbase address. I've corresponded with Eric about this, asking that the TO command be removed or renamed. He said that he is concerned that there might be someone using it somewhere and would like to heear from other LISTSERV maintainers before doing something about the problem. So I'm here asking if others see the same problem. == Forwarded Mail == MAIL VIA BITNET FROM [log in to unmask] SUNDAY 03/17/96 7:33:40 P.M. Received: from LIST.NIH.GOV by NIHCU (Mailer) id 753; Sun, 17 Mar 96 19:33:40 EST Received: from LIST.NIH.GOV by LIST.NIH.GOV (Mailer R2.10 ptf000) with BSMTP id 0752; Sun, 17 Mar 96 19:32:27 EST Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:32:26 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at NIHLIST (1.8b)" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Delivery error report from WR.COM.AU To: Roger Fajman <[log in to unmask]>, Tom onWylbur <[log in to unmask]> X-LSV-ListID: None The enclosed message, found in the LISTSERV mailbox and shown under the spool ID 0751 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery error notice for the following reason: mail origin seems to be a mailer. ------------------------ Message in error (57 lines) -------------------------- Received: from NIHLIST by LIST.NIH.GOV (Mailer R2.10 ptf000) with BSMTP id 0750; Sun, 17 Mar 96 19:32:24 EST Received: from wr.com.au by LIST.NIH.GOV (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Sun, 17 Mar 96 19:31:49 EST Received: by wr.com.au (5.x/SMI-SVR4-1.0) id AB15535; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:36:07 +1000 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:36:07 +1000 From: [log in to unmask] (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- <<< HELO LIST.NIH.GOV <<< MAIL FROM:<[log in to unmask]> <<< RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]> 550 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown <<< DATA ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: from LIST.NIH.GOV by wr.com.au (5.x/SMI-SVR4-1.0) id AA15525; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:36:07 +1000 Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> Errors-To: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from LIST.NIH.GOV by LIST.NIH.GOV (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0724; Sun, 17 Mar 96 19:31:23 EST Received: from LIST.NIH.GOV by LIST.NIH.GOV (Mailer R2.10 ptf000) with BSMTP id 0722; Sun, 17 Mar 96 19:27:49 EST Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:27:49 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at NIHLIST (1.8b)" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Output of job "tclarke" from [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Command replies from [log in to unmask] are being forwarded to you. Unknown command - "THIS". Try HELP. > ME Australia which lists all Australian addresses. Unknown command - "ME". Try HELP. > the soc hasn't got an Internet link Unknown command - "THE". Try HELP. > Have a nice day and if these messages are automatically sorted I hope Unknown command - "HAVE". Try HELP. > someone picks this up on an error list Unknown command - "SOMEONE". Try HELP. > Kind regards Phil Unknown command - "KIND". Try HELP. Summary of resource utilization ------------------------------- CPU time: 0.171 sec Device I/O: 0 Overhead CPU: 0.073 sec Paging I/O: 2 CPU model: 9375 DASD model: 9335