A subscriber's system has been bouncing all LISTSERV messages. The IT manager at the subscriber's site reported "They are being blocked by our firewall since they are using a non-standard Received header. They need to straighten their act out!" and quoted the following log entry: > 11246618 11/20/02 13:04:36 smtp-proxy[31031] [164.76.102.107:63666 > 192.168.0.29:25] (spamscreen) Found spam from 164.76.102.107 (forged > Received: header) from [log in to unmask] These are the headers I have of the offending message: > Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> > Received: (qmail 4368 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2002 18:04:09 -0000 > Received: from listserv.linguistlist.org (HELO listserv) (164.76.102.107) by listserv.linguistlist.org with SMTP; 20 Nov 2002 18:04:09 -0000 > Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:04:09 -0500 > From: "L-Soft list server at The LINGUIST List. (1.8d)" > <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Welcome to the Word Wide Words list > To: A N Other <[log in to unmask]> > cc: [log in to unmask] > Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > X-LSV-ListID: WORLDWIDEWORDS I suspect I know what is happening, but I would be grateful for an authoritiative answer, as much for my own information as to instruct the subscriber's IT staff! -- Michael Quinion Editor, World Wide Words E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Web: <http://www.worldwidewords.org/>