At 09:54 08/06/2002 Tuesday, Gary Bannister wrote:
 >We run a number of lists and some moron has added several of our "<list>-
 >request" addresses to one of those lists of 30 million email addresses that
 >spammers sell to brain-dead companies.  List owners are complaining about
 >the spam now being sent to these addresses.  I am inclined to route these
 >addresses to the bit bucket at least for a while but I am not certain what
 >good information may be lost.  Does anybody know?  Does anyone have a
 >better solution?
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Well the -REQUEST address is the "official" method of contacting
non-quiet list-owner(s).  Also mailing that generic address generates an
auto-ack to the supposed sender, which can be problematic when KLEZ virus
spoofing is involved (which seems to be the most frequent abuse that I see).

Thus, I've updated my listname.MAILTPL template REQACK1 to suppress auto-acks

using the

.QQ

formatting command.