On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Peacenet Balkans Desk wrote:
> Our list is being plagued by the appearance of postings meant for an
> entirely different list, not run on LISTSERV as far as I know. The posters
> to that other list have no idea how their mail is getting to our list. I've
> written to the other list's owner-address (no reply as yet), and for what
> it's worth, just now put the listname as a Filter= entry. Of course we've
> written to [log in to unmask] about this.
>
> Because of the very different nature of the two lists, the crosstalk is
> extremely offensive, and I must stop it ASAP.
>
> Beyond what I've already done, does anyone have any suggestion at all as how
> to proceed?

The solution to your problem is simple. Set "Send= Private" in your list's
header. I do this with all of the 800 or so lists that operate on the
Listserv that I am responsible for and it works very well. Only people who
are subscribed to a list can post to it.