Your "twice through the server" rule may work well for your list, but it cannot be applied on a site-wide basis, because it will break every moderated list on the server. Your list may be configured to allow subscribers - or even non-subscribers - to post freely, but any server hosting more than a handful of lists will almost certainly have at least one list which is configured to require editor approval for at least some postings, and any posting which goes through the approval process will have headers which make it appear that the message passed through the server twice. > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, j newton wrote: > > The "twice through the list server" thing works very well for me on my > list, > > but once someone has been detected as a bouncer, is there any way for me > to > > tell the list server to stop distributing post from them? I am currently > > deleting the subscriber the instant I see the first bounce (with 2000 > > members, I can't afford to be nice about it) but I still see round after > > round of bounces come through from the same person. > -- Paul Russell Senior Systems Administrator University of Notre Dame (#5 on the Top 20 sites by number of lists)