thanks Ben Parker. I suspected that too as I have seen these email addresses as forged spammers The question for L-Soft is: should listowners be notified (bothered) with such attempts esp. when list is already set as SUBSCRIPTION= OWNER -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ben Parker Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:03 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [LSTOWN-L] Daily error monitoring report On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:16:25 +0100, Jacky Foo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >these addresses are not subscribers of the List (subscription= owner) so why/how >are their names in the "Daily error monitoring report" ? Addresses which attempt to subscribe to a list may be listed in the DMR if any LISTSERV response to that address (e.g. confirmation of subscribe request) bounces.