While I may not be giving a proper answer, there are other solutions to
spam, such as putting a filter on your own mailer (I have many) or using a
personal spam program, which I also use.  This program will bounce the
message, delete it before opening although a preview can be looked at, as
well as blacklist sender.  I have had few spams to *-request but have caught
all of them this way without recurrences when I have had the program
running.

Barbara Passmore

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Greenberg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [LSTOWN-L] SPAMMERS are using my &LISTNAME-request@&MYHOST Big
Time!]


> On: Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:23:25AM -0400,Pete Weiss Wrote:
>
> } listname-request currently generates an auto-ack message.  This can be
> } done by the kinds of viruses that "spoof" the FROM: field resulting in
> } unwanted mail to the FROM address (if it really exists), of if does not
> } exist, a bounce back to the listowner.
> }
> } I recommend as a reduction technique, updating your list's template
> }
> } >>> REQACK1 Your message to &LISTNAME-request@&MYHOST
> } .qq
> } [the rest of the original template]
> }
> } Obviously this doesn't solve the problem of spam to the -request
address.
> }
> } Though I've never tried it (and it may have unintended bad consequences,
> } esp for non-SPAM mail), you could make all list-owners QUIET
> }
> } OWNER= quiet:,[log in to unmask]
>
> While either of these would help, I don't think you want both of them
> because an unintended bad consequence would be that mail to
> listname-request (which is a "well known" address) would vanish into a
> black hole.  If you make all owners quiet, put in the ack message that
> no human will see thier message and give an alternate address.
>
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