To add to what you have said, sometimes an individual who is a member of a
rootsweb list (or several) will have their email address book "hi-jacked"
and spam sent to every email address listed in their book. In that case,
the messages get through to the rootsweb list because they do come from a
subscriber's address. In those cases, it is usually fairly easy to identify
the messages because they will contain nothing but a web address. The best
thing to do if you receive such a message is to immediately delete -- and do
not click on or open the web address. No need to report these instances
because they have nothing to do with rootsweb and its spam filters. The
individual whose address book was used is the one who has to deal with this
problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: inowen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:inowen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Larry M. Weatherly
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 1:31 PM
To: inowen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INOWEN] Fwd: (no subject) this is spam
As an administrator (owner) of other lists I Rootsweb, and knowing
that Nancy has some personal issues at the moment; I will step in
here and briefly comment on the issue of spam on a Rootsweb list.
You all need to know that Rootsweb has a very good spam filter in
place. I know because the vast majority of spam headed for the list
that you read comes to the list administrator first to be cleared to
the list. At one point I perused each referred message - even though
I had no interest in the sundry personal enhancement or financial
gain offered. Over time this became an onerous task with one of my
lists often gathering more than 20 messages on a daily basis. At that
point I advised my lists that going forward any message not received
from a recognized list member was going to be immediately dumped.
Today - only if a spammer becomes a subscribed member of a list can a
spam message come through. On occasion, some evil creature 'spoofs' a
subscribers address and the vile stuff gets on the list. It happens
despite everything that is put in place to protect the list members.
It is doubly important that as a list member you do not report the
message to your ISP or any account outside of Rootsweb as spam. When
someone does that the ISP puts Rootsweb on the spam blacklist and all
sorts of irritation ensues. Over the past week and a half or so the
vast majority of AT&T and affiliates ISPs have been banning Rootsweb
email as spam. This results in Rootsweb removing accounts from lists
when the messages intended for the subscriber reach the ISP and are
bounced back.
I can understand that rather ill informed action. What I find
absolutely intolerable is when someone who has subscribed to a list
is too lazy to follow the clear un subscribe instructions they
received when they subscribed to the list. Rather with high disregard
for their fellow list members, they report the incoming list mail as
spam to their ISP - and the vicious circle begins anew.
Believe me - Rootsweb and your list administrator(s) do their best to
keep the filth that is often spam content out of your inbox.
Larry M. Weatherly
Weatherly List curmudgeon
and others
Message: 6
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:59:04 -0500 (EST)
From: SanSJo(a)aol.com
Subject: [INOWEN] Fwd: (no subject) this is spam
To: inowen(a)rootsweb.com
Message-ID: <3b8f3.24c6f944.3a6e5308(a)aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
____________________________________
From: jacquielj(a)yahoo.com
Reply-to: inowen(a)rootsweb.com
To: zana(a)ctaz.com, office(a)germanna.org, lcorourke(a)msn.com,
lindacary(a)hotmail.com, inowen-l(a)rootsweb.com, jacquielj(a)yahoo.com,
mlmanifo(a)mail1.vcu.edu,
robsam69(a)aol.com, tgcheeseman(a)aol.com
Sent: 1/23/2011 6:54:17 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: [INOWEN] (no subject)
http://rfregionalsorraia.com/images/aaz.php
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