On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Bill Verity wrote: > These are *JOB* files that listserv has not processed yet. We run > 18 smtp helpers on the outgoing queues and that seems to keep up > just fine. We do *not* run spam assassin or any other filters. As > I said, they would just make our input queues worse, in my > opinion. They would save our readers from looking at spam, so we > might do this someday. > > I don't know why this bottleneck happened although the queues have > been getting worse over the last several months. It is > interesting, in a good way, that a lot of work flows paste all of > these queued jobs. A "Thanks" message often comes right back, and > a lot of list traffic gets through. Listserv takes a "quick" look > at incoming files and tries to prioritize the job queue in some > fashion. Bill, don't you have the option of running your lists with "Confidential= Yes or Local" and/or "Send= Private"? This is what I do for most of the lists here. As a result, I rarely experience spam being distributed to lists' subscribers.