As I understand it, RedHat is just providing the hosting and has nothing to do with the actual operation of the list, and since most of the list's functionality is completely automated, there might not even be a flesh and blood person behind whatever e-mail serves as the list owner. Whether the spammer is using the e-mail addresses attached to individual messages as they're sent to subscribers or e-mail addresses taken from the latest archived posts is probably impossible to tell, but I deduce that the spam is being sent to individual poster's e-mail addresses rather than the list itself and are independant of legitimate post volume since I only get spam when I reply to a thread and get a slew of the spam messages even if I was the last poster. Banning Amy might work if she's getting the e-mail addresses from messages landing in her inbox, but if the e-mail adresses are coming from the archives or a second e-mail account subscribed to the list, I don't think anything short of changing the list's configuration to not include the sender's e-mail in either ther e-mails sent to individual subscribers or the archives, and doing so would probably be necessary to stop all future spam attempts that don't rely on being a subscriber, and even if there is a flesh and blood person behind the e-mail that serves as list owner, the list software might not allow such. That said, I accepted long ago that the only way to avoid spam e-mail altogether is to not use e-mail at all just as the only foolproof means of avoiding telemarketers is to not have a phone. -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list