Thanks - I have added the ".qq" to the .mailtpl but have also removed the "-
request" addresses at least until things quiet down.
- Gary

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:40:12 -0400, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>At 09:54 08/06/2002 Tuesday, Gary Bannister wrote:
> >We run a number of lists and some moron has added several of our "<list>-
> >request" addresses to one of those lists of 30 million email addresses
that
> >spammers sell to brain-dead companies.  List owners are complaining about
> >the spam now being sent to these addresses.  I am inclined to route these
> >addresses to the bit bucket at least for a while but I am not certain
what
> >good information may be lost.  Does anybody know?  Does anyone have a
> >better solution?
>End Reply
>
>Well the -REQUEST address is the "official" method of contacting
>non-quiet list-owner(s).  Also mailing that generic address generates an
>auto-ack to the supposed sender, which can be problematic when KLEZ virus
>spoofing is involved (which seems to be the most frequent abuse that I
see).
>
>Thus, I've updated my listname.MAILTPL template REQACK1 to suppress auto-
acks
>
>using the
>
>.QQ
>
>formatting command.