On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:56:40 -0500, kos <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I (and presumably many other Listserv listowners) have just received a >communication from a Doug Miller, announcing that Onelist and eGroups have >merged. Actually ONEList was guilty of doing much the same thing when they started up a year or so ago. Going down the CataList(sm) listing and writing to every possible listname-request@hostname address they can find. I believe that L-Soft will be persuing legal remedies. Unfortunately the listname-REQUEST@... address cannot be blocked as it must remain a generic way for list members and potential members to contact the human List Owner. 8-( LISTSERV Server admins however CAN do something to prevent this at the server level to protect List Owners of all the lists on their server(s). For NT: add this line to site.cfg and stop/restart LISTSERV FILTER_ALSO=%FILTER_ALSO% *@egroups.* *@*.egroups.* For unix platforms add this line to go.user and stop/restart LISTSERV FILTER_ALSO="$FILTER_ALSO *@egroups.* *@*.egroups.*" export FILTER_ALSO I hope this helps... ;-)