We're getting hammered by it too. The spoofed addresses are more than likely being caused by the current outbreak of SoBig.F that's going around. I had to hold a couple of lists for 3 days and move the held jobs out of the queue to keep LISTSERV running. Noel Siksai A+, RHCE Avaya Corporate Email and Directory Email backbone, Mass mail, Mailing lists, POST Tier 2 Admin. [log in to unmask] 248-746-5210 (v) 248-362-1618 (f) 248-321-5684 (cell) 248-591-8106 (pager) [log in to unmask] (email to pager) "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."-Mahatma Gandhi -----Original Message----- From: Pete Weiss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:09 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Question -- faked "From:"s At 10:29 08/21/2003 Thursday, Listserv Admin wrote: >Situation: We are getting loads of e-mail to various mailing lists, and >many have the same faked "From:" field. > >The "From:" field turns out to be real and actually belongs to a company >and is an auto-responder and as you can imagine, we've had a mailing loop >that crashed the machine before I was able to SERVE OFF the address. > >I've been talking to the owner of the company and he does NOT want to turn >off his auto-responder -- which is what I suggested he do temporarily. >What he does want, is to never get e-mail from us/Listserv again -- from >reading the documentation, I see no way to accomplish this, and as I type >this note to you all, Listserv continues to send his company e-mail for >each mail we receive for one of our mailing lists. So, any >ideas/thoughts/options?? Maybe I'm missing something, BUT: 1) are the FROM: addresses subscribers of your list? 2) if they are legit subscribers, set them to REVIEW or perhaps NOPOST 3) if not subscribers, tighten your SEND= controls