Thanks for the tip. I got so desperate (3200 messages in 2 hours), I just filtered the networks at the router, turned off all of our external MX records and am hoping for the best... -Carl At 05:06 PM 8/6/97 -0400, you wrote: >On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Carl Forsythe wrote: > >> We run a 1 way product announce list, and one of our recipients has gone >> on vacation...since no postings are allowed to the list, the vacation reply >> comes in to listserv which tries to process it...which serves the user >> off, sends a reply back to the user, and once again the vacation program >> replies >> starting the whole process over again. >> >> i.e. vacation->listserv (serve off user)->vacation->listserv->vacation >> etc... >> >> any hints? clues soluitions? >> The user has been unsub'd at this point...to no avail... > >How about adding the deleted subscriber to the config variable FILTER >ALSO which should stop messages in one direction and therefore break the >loop. > John > >