Once upon a time, X-SPAM notifications served a useful purpose, because spammers set up jobs to send thousands of messages with the same sender address. The world has moved on, spammers techniques have changed, and the X-SPAM jobs have become less than useless: they have become spam. The volume of X-SPAM jobs which our LISTSERV server receives from other LISTSERV servers is significantly higher than the volume of actual spam which our LISTSERV server receives. This has become a major performance issue. Despite L-Soft's claims that web requests take precedence over inbound messages in the listserv/spool directory, we continually experience web performance problems during periods of high inbound mail volume, and most of those messages seem to be X-SPAM jobs from other LISTSERV servers. Are we the only site experiencing these problems? -- Paul Russell Senior Systems Administrator OIT Messaging Services Team University of Notre Dame