Steve Howie wrote the following on 11/22/2006 5:42 PM:
> A list owner has contacted us asking why he is receiving error 
> monitoring reports for users who are not subscribed to his list.

My current DEMR has 76 addresses with errors -- only 7 of which are list 
subscribers. The rest are from spammers sending quiet subscribes to my 
list. My setting is subscribe by_owner, confirm, and the confirmations 
are bouncing. I know this because I added the confirm so all those bogus 
subscribe requests didn't end up in my inbox. Two or three a day are 
non-standard bounces, and the full bounce message ends up in my inbox. 
They are all quiet subscribe attempts.

But, yes, I really wish there was an option to have only subscribers 
appear on the DEMR, or at least have the report sorted into subscriber 
and non-subscriber bounces. I understand the reasoning behind including 
all of them, but when there are 70+ bogus errors the report isn't very 
useful unless you have a lot of time to spend going over it. If you look 
only for addresses with multiple bounces, then the rational for including 
all of them (subscriber posting from a different address) is moot, as the 
listowner isn't going to see it unless they have the time to go over all 
of the bounces.

-- 
Karen Reznek
head listowner -- Asperger
Director -- ICORS