On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:49:11 -0500, "Bramhall, Mark" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>This traffic is explained in the Site Manager Manual, Chap 5.6 and 5.7, >>especially 5.6.3 >> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8e/sitemgr/sitemgr.html#_Toc9062348 >Stills does not seem to be the answer to me: > >1 -- My LISTSERV has received over 200 messages from cherry/peach since >my original post this morning. That is extremely high traffic for any >kind of site monitoring. No this is normal 'backbone' traffic from all LISTSERV servers worldwide. Mainly it is spam notifications. I've checked my log files and they show a similar amount, on a daily basis. >2 -- The body of the received message appears to be MIME, but not MIME I >recognize. Could someone help me understand it from the fragment below? > >//X-SPAM JOB Echo=NO >X-B64 ID=X-SPAM.JOB ASCII CLASS=J >//Data DD * >ACYvL1NwYW1fQWxlcnQgSk9CIEVjaG89Tm8sUmVwbHktdG89Tm9uZQAJLy9UbyBE >... This is Base64 encoded. LISTSERV knows how to decode it. As explained in the manual, LISTSERV Lite receives, but ignores this information. The commercial (non-free) version of LITE can be configured to ignore/not receive this traffic, but the free version cannot.