Thanks, Pete. Now my question is what does that do? I find serve off in the docs and the archives, but I can't seem to find the Hold parameter. And I'm curious about serve off vs filter. And- Pete- thanks for all the help to all the people on this list! Nelson >That particular address has been doing that for months on other lists. Never was able to get it blocked at the source. > >I suggest (LISTSERV MAINTAINER cmd) > >QUIET SERVE userid@host OFF HOLD > >At 19:23 2/24/2005 Thursday, Listserv Manager wrote: >>On a list I personally own, we are seeing a bunch of the following. We put >>a filter in, but that makes no difference- I'm guessing because the >>"served out" test is done before filtering. Any suggestions? Free the >>user, and put a global filter? I do see x-spam entries in the logs. Yes,