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.