An owner here add over 200 of our list names as subscribers to his list hoping to reach a large audience.  My first thought was that this was foolish but couldn't hurt much since most of our lists are either private or send=owner.  However, it appears that the error messages, generated by listserv are, in fact, posted to the various lists, which recursively causes *huge* problems.

I'll use real names so I am not confused.  This is how it appears to me:

L-QUANTUM-JUJITSU is the list that has other lists as subscribers.  A note is posted to it, then in turn sent to the other lists as well as the "real" subscribers.  The other lists send a note back to L-QUANTUM-JUJITSU saying they either rejected it or are sending it on to their moderator. L-QUANTUM-JUJITSU accepts this mail from [log in to unmask] and posts it to its subscribers. Now this new note, being from [log in to unmask] is accepted by the other lists and gets posted to all of its subscribers.   Here are the headers from one note:

Received: from f05n16 (f05s16.cac.psu.edu [128.118.141.59])
        by f05n16.cac.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA38858;
        Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:18:20 -0500
Received: from LISTS.PSU.EDU by LISTS.PSU.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d)
          with spool id 76679 for [log in to unmask]; Mon, 18 Feb
          2002 14:18:17 -0500
Received: from f05n16 (f05s16.cac.psu.edu [128.118.141.59]) by
          f05n16.cac.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA90894 for
          <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:18:13 -0500
Message-ID:  <[log in to unmask]>
Date:         Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:18:13 -0500
Reply-To: "L-Soft list server at LISTS.PSU.EDU (1.8d)"
              <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: Quantum Jujitsu Seminars and Schedules
              <[log in to unmask]>
From: "L-Soft list server at LISTS.PSU.EDU (1.8d)"
              <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Message ("Your message dated Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:19:07...")
To: [log in to unmask]

Your message dated Mon, 18 Feb  2002 14:19:07 -0500 with subject "Sambo,
Judo, Kickboxing, Muay Thai from Quantum Jujitsu at Penn State" has been
submitted to the moderator of the L-PHOENIX list: [log in to unmask]
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