Hi Dawn,
The only thing that has come close to being spam was that guy who subs to
every mailing list in the state and then sends an e-mail at once. I have
gotten word from a cousin whose husband line matches one of the surnames he
is researching, supposedly. She wrote to him all excited and discovered he
has nothing to share, she then asked if he was after crashing rootsweb or
why he was sending the same letter to all of the mailing lists. He wrote
back that supposedly he is after crashing rootsweb and that this is nothing
yet, that they should wait until midnight on New Years eve. He told her
that there is no stopping him because he has several different e-mail
addresses and no one can cancel them all on him.
So, this is all I know of any form of spam and to my knowledge the only
way to get signed onto a mailing list, other than for the list owner to
sign you up is through your own e-mail address.
Good luck,
Debie (single B person<G>)
Sheboygan & Calumet County CC
At 10:11 PM 12/30/99 EST, you wrote:
Hi all,
I've gotten several strange bounce messages from my WIDANE-L & D lists
the last few days. I've also had people who wonder how they got
subscribed and one postee which complained of spam from my list. Have
any of the rest of you experienced any of these problems? I personally
haven't seen any spam come across my list--rootsweb has always done an
excellent blocking job.
Dawn M. Knauft, CGRS
Coordinator, Dane Co. WiGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~widane
WiSearch, Professional Genealogical Research
http://www.wisearch.net
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