I don't see how your second statement can be true. You can see in the headers that the post came from some third part, to the list server, out to the bouncer, and back to the list server where it was distributed to ALL list members, not just the one who posted the original message. Everyone on the list is seeing these bounces, not just the original poster. --- James Newton (PICList Admin #3) mailto:[log in to unmask] 1-619-652-0593 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com or .org -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Winship Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 14:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Duplicate Posting problem On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, j newton wrote: > No, I'm not using autodelete, I manually delete people when they start Well, it certainly sounds like you should be; will cut your workload dramatically. > It seems like nothing I do will stop the list server from distributing > bounces back to the other members. There is nothing you can do about that; those error messages are being sent *directly* to the subscriber (generally whoever posted the item) by mail systems which can't properly read eamil headers. Those are never processed by listserv so there is nothing you can do about it other than set the offending subscriber DIGEST (there will then be only one bounce per day and it WILL come to you, set it NOMAIL (not a good idea if you might forget about it an leave it there for years; do you use RENEW= ?) or delete the sub. NOPOST won't do anything, the errors aren't going through LISTSERV, and neither will a filter as those errors are not going through LISTSERV, they are being sent directly from the non-receiving system to whomever posted the item which wasn't delivered. Douglas