Jay West wrote: > You should have sent this to the list owner/admin, not the list.
Yes. But the list owner for the automake list is gnulists-ownrr at gnu.org, which is to say, effectively nobody. The list is really running entirely on inertia. For example there are over a hundred messages in the hold queue awaiting attention of the list owner from four months ago. Lars Hecking wrote: > Most likely, the same thing happens to OP that happens to me: the lists > run at gnu.org are crawling with spam, and a good number of them get > rejected somewhere between gnu.org and OP's final destination. After a > certain number of rejections, $LIST_MEMBER's subscription is disabled > automatically. I see that too. Here are some things that can be done about it. Whitelist monty-python.gnu.org in your access lists. Never reject mail to it. If you want to block spam at the MTA level (always a good thing) then discard messages instead of rejecting messages from monty-python.gnu.org. Generally for viruses I am discarding and for spam I am rejecting with the exceptions being known mailing list servers. I recommend spamassassin deal with what comes through from the mailing lists. Alien999999999 wrote: > This is very frustrating, I'm running linux, don't have any viruses, > and I don't spam people, I hardly ever sent a mail to this list... Your address is @users.sourceforge.net. That is most likely the machine which is bouncing the messages. As stated there is a huge amount of spam from gnu.org and if it is rejected then it looks like your account is rejecting mail. It is not usual for large mailing list servers to get listed in the various RBLs. sf.net does use RBLs and so that may also be a source of the problem. http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6747&group_id=1#top You might be better off receiving mail directly on your server. Then you could whitelist monty-python.gnu.org which sends the spam, I mean mailing list messages. It is also possible that in the path between sourceforge.net and your final mailbox rejections are taking place. Check your spam filtering and ensure that you are not generating rejects to spam or viruses. If those rejections are getting back to the mailing list software on gnu.org then it will appear as if your account is bouncing mailing list message. Hope that helps, Bob