I don't see how your second statement can be true. You can see in the
headers that the post came from some third part, to the list server, out to
the bouncer, and back to the list server where it was distributed to ALL
list members, not just the one who posted the original message. Everyone on
the list is seeing these bounces, not just the original poster.

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James Newton (PICList Admin #3)
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-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV list owners' forum
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Winship
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 14:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posting problem


On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, j newton wrote:
> No, I'm not using autodelete, I manually delete people when they start

Well, it certainly sounds like you should be; will cut your workload
dramatically.

> It seems like nothing I do will stop the list server from distributing
> bounces back to the other members.

There is nothing you can do about that; those error messages are being
sent *directly* to the subscriber (generally whoever posted the item)
by mail systems which can't properly read eamil headers.  Those are
never processed by listserv so there is nothing you can do about it
other than set the offending subscriber DIGEST (there will then be only
one bounce per day and it WILL come to you, set it NOMAIL (not a good
idea if you might forget about it an leave it there for years; do you
use RENEW= ?) or delete the sub.  NOPOST won't do anything, the errors
aren't going through LISTSERV, and neither will a filter as those errors
are not going through LISTSERV, they are being sent directly from the
non-receiving system to whomever posted the item which wasn't delivered.

Douglas