** Sometime around 22:51 -0500 12/08/98, Anne H Toal said:

>After what seems like months of quiet, I've suddenly received about six
>netwide spam alerts from Listserv in the past 24 hours. Did someone turn a
>switch on at Lsoft, or have spammers suddenly taken an interest in
>Listserv lists again?

I've noticed a very recent increase in spam on both my LISTSERV lists and
my Lyris lists (i.e., it's certainly not limited to LISTSERV AFAICT). Note'
that these are *attempted* spammings; all but a very few of my lists are
configured SEND-BY-SUBSCRIBERS only (in ListProc parlance), which nearly
eliminates spam on those lists.

- Vince