See the release notes for 1.8e.  We added some restrictions as to who may
post to ALL-REQUEST.

http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8e/relnotes/v18e-mnt.html#allrequest

Nathan

At 12:01 2002/07/02 -0400, Paul Russell wrote:
>The address [log in to unmask] is a LISTSERV alias. Your MTA
>passes the message to LISTSERV, which distributes it to all non-quiet list
>owners. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any way to prevent anyone,
>anywhere from sending anything to that address. Unless you want to provide
>spammers and other malicious mailers with a route to all your list owners'
>mailboxes, you will disable this alias and find another way to reach your
>list owners.
>
>We maintain an announcement list for our list owners. The list is refreshed
>as needed using a script which greps the "owner=" records from "listview"
>output and submits a bulk add job to LISTSERV. I am willing to share the
>script with anyone who is interested. We run LISTSERV 1.8d on Solaris 2.8.
>
>--
>Paul Russell
>Senior System Administrator
>O&E Messaging Services Team
>University of Notre Dame