Dear LSTOWN-L and LSTERN-L readers,
 
While Turgut Kalfaoglu's proposal (he's Eric Thomas' counterpart on LISTEARN)
is highly recommendable, the final line in his posting shows that he will now
receive all these Mexican postings.  Isn't there a way to divert these postings
to (POSTMASTer at) the originating site so that others can go on with business
as usual?
 
[ Perhaps, the BITNET NODELST on NETSERVers should not have ALL retrieval
privilege (assuming that's how the Mexican students created their distribution
avalanche), but I would be quite unhappy with such an information constraint.
As it is, finding addresses for Internet sites is quite difficult, unlike for
BITNET.]
 
Eric, what about LISTSERvers?
 
Regards, Herman J. Woltring <[log in to unmask], on LISTEARN>
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Date:    Sat, 2 May 92 12:10:38 EDT
From:    Turgut Kalfaoglu <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Message
Sender:  LISTEARN Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
 
Dear Friends,
 
  There is either a program out of control, or a person purposefully
distributing the same mail to many lists, and I urge you to serve this
person off your server to prevent further distribution of this
useless announcement. To do this, issue:
   TELL LISTSERV SERVE SISC92@ITESO OFF
at your earliest convenience. This commands requires postmaster priviledges.
Regards, -turgut
 
PS: This is what will happen when that user tries to post to your server:
 
------------------------original message--------------------------
>Error occured while processing file (1574) from SISC92@ITESO: "Mail has
>been received for list FIGBOX-L from a user (SISC92@ITESO) which has been
>served out". File has been transferred to [log in to unmask]