One of our email addresses are being spoofed. The email address is an owner
of the list and when it gets served off the mailing is ignored by listserv
and we have to serve the address back on. Someone is spoofing our email
address to send spam to listserv.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Spammer


> At 16:49 9/6/2006 Wednesday, Michael DeGregory wrote:
> >We have an email address that someone is using to Spam our listserv box.
> >It is not someone here as I have checked the SMTP logs and it seems to
> >happen at midnight almost every night. Whats happining is that the
spammer
> >is using an email address here as the from address and sending spam to
> >listserv. Listserv is receiving the mail and try to process the
> >"commands". Obviously it is unable to process and keeps serving out the
> >address and we have to keep serving this address back on. Is there a way
> >for listserv to block this IP address? Any help/suggestions will be
> >greatly appreciated.
>
> Why is that you need to serve ON an obsolete spamming email address?
>
> Instead, I would
>
> QUIET SERVE old_spamming_email_address OFF DROP
>
>
> QED