Don this email was not sent to the list, it was sent directly to me. You
may be confusing it with the spam posted on the IOWA list. What likely
happened in that case was the legitimate member had their email hijacked.
For everyone who spends a lot of time managing spam on their lists, there is
hope. I too was bombarded with non-subscriber junk until I found the
setting that automatically deletes non-subscriber emails. I never have to
manually delete them any more. For example, Don you also sent this message
to the MTGenWeb list. You are not subscribed there so your message just
went in the list garbage. I did not receive a bounce message. Peace and
quiet reign. LOL
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: donkelly [mailto:ocollaugh@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:12 PM
To: Norma Jennings
Cc: IAGEN(a)rootsweb.com; mtgen(a)rootsweb.com; Karen De Groote-Johnson
Subject: Re: [IAGEN] Now Spammers are using Rootsweb
What is strange about the current issue is that the spam went directly to
the list, not to the admin as normal.
Several lists, all offshore, get a lot of spam to XX-admin(a)rootsweb.com
where they are spun into cyberspace and never reach the list.
So if anyone knows how a spammer, without first subscribing, can post
directly to the list, there might be a better way we can fight them off.
donkelly
----- Original Message -----
From: Norma Jennings <iawashington2002(a)yahoo.com>
To: IAGEN(a)rootsweb.com, mtgen(a)rootsweb.com, Karen De Groote-Johnson
<europatb(a)iowatelecom.net>
Sent: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:11:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [IAGEN] Now Spammers are using Rootsweb
Karen, iowatelecom is having a major problem all over from these off shore
spammers. It has even brought the whole service down for short periods of
time. They encouraged me to use yahoo or gmail, one of the online mail
servers even though I still access the internet and FTP with iowatelecom.
They told me the spammers wouldn't know how to find me on yahoo. But if
they are skimming addresses from Rootsweb, we may see more of these.
Norma