Only if you are a developer <grin>. On 8/10/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > again the inevitable has happened. that darn spam button is too close to > the delete button cant someone do something about that

again the inevitable has happened. that darn spam button is too close to the delete button cant someone do something about that **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

Tom- You have been given some good advice already...I just want to add that you wouldn't have been unsubbed from ALL lists just because you accidentally reported ONE RootsWeb list message as spam. Obviously you were not unsubbed from THIS list or you wouldn't have been able to post a message to it. To check and be sure which list or lists you have been removed from check either at MyAccount or Password Central (click the PASSWORD tab on any RootsWeb page). https://myaccount.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Then only resubscribe to your list(s) you don't find yourself currently subbed to. Joan In a message dated 8/10/2008 9:29:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Someone Please Help..How do I click on this address to get reinstated...Seems I hit the Spam button yesterday and sent one of the rootsweb messages to SPAM Now they have removed my name from all lists?? Tom Temple **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

There's a link on RW for them to send you a list of what you are subbed to. It seems a bit too fast that you'd hit spam and the next day be off all lists. But it is all curable. Re-sub to every list and make sure they are in your "allowed" email. Judy On 8/10/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone Please Help..How do I click on this address to get > reinstated...Seems I hit the Spam button yesterday and sent one of the rootsweb messages to > SPAM Now they have removed my name from all lists?? > Tom Temple

HI Tom, what you did we all do sometimes.....it is healable. First of all go to your spam filter and delete the rootsweb address, then just resub to the lists you want. If you don't know how to go to your filter, let me know and I'll give you the steps. Hugs and best luck Pat Arden and Pat Houser, Pahrump, NV May God continue to bless America In a message dated 8/10/2008 6:29:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Someone Please Help..How do I click on this address to get reinstated...Seems I hit the Spam button yesterday and sent one of the rootsweb messages to SPAM Now they have removed my name from all lists?? Tom Temple **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut0005000000001 7 ) ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

PLEASE BE CAREFUL ON REMOVING MESSAGES Yesterday by accident I clicked the SPAM button on a Roots Web message and NOW they have removed my name form all lists..How Do I get back on the lists ? Tom Temple **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

Someone Please Help..How do I click on this address to get reinstated...Seems I hit the Spam button yesterday and sent one of the rootsweb messages to SPAM Now they have removed my name from all lists?? Tom Temple **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

Thanks Joan for info ....... makes me happy to have something for free to use ............ lol When I bought my new computer it had Norton's on it , which I knew I needed to get rid of because of all the knowledge I had learned from the list ....... Thanks again ...... Gerri Mason OhiO In a message dated 8/8/2008 6:57:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I don't know how many of you read Consumer Reports, but the current issue tested and ranked Internet Security software and McAfee came out with an excellent ranking. However, they didn't mention the free version of the software and I contacted them to see if they knew if the free software offered by AOL and other ISPs was as affective as the version they tested. The reply I received stated that while they hadn't tested the free version they believed that it would have the same excellent level of protection against malware but they added: "Other features of the commercial suite, including PC cleanup, identity protection, and network utilities, are missing, according to this web page: http://daol.aol.com/security/checklist/. " Of course, the AOL version does include the SpyZapper software and there are plenty of other places to obtain the other features should you want them--but it would seem to me that the lack of all that "stuff" actually makes the free version more attactive to me as it would be less of a drain on your computer's resources. I thought others might be interested in this information. Joan **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut0005000000001 7 ) ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

Woody- To the best of my knowledge this wouldn't be possible if you use AOL's email program as long as you do not enable graphics and links from unknown sources which is the default in AOL's email program. Joan In a message dated 8/8/2008 10:47:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: A "phone home" is when something in the e-mail sends information back to a designated computer. It may be validating your IP address or e-mail address, or it may be calling the home computer to send some graphics. For example, there are e-mails from businesses that have no attachments, and yet they have lots of graphics in them. How do they get there? What is happening is that when the e-mail is opened, the e-mail "phones home" asking for the graphics, and the graphics are sent to your computer to show all of the necessary displays. Woody **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

A "phone home" is when something in the e-mail sends information back to a designated computer. It may be validating your IP address or e-mail address, or it may be calling the home computer to send some graphics. For example, there are e-mails from businesses that have no attachments, and yet they have lots of graphics in them. How do they get there? What is happening is that when the e-mail is opened, the e-mail "phones home" asking for the graphics, and the graphics are sent to your computer to show all of the necessary displays. Woody ============================= [email protected] writes: What is a "phone home"? -----Original Message----- From: Woody Woodworth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 5:09 pm Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Using my e-mail address The spoofing was experimenatal and restricted to a few times years ago to someone I knew well (my brothers), and only for something both harmless and rediculous but slightly plausible. By the way, there is a free trial program that permits one to track receipt of e-mails, how many times and when an e-mail is opened, the general location of the recipient, and more. Further, one can pull a "Mission Impossible" feat of deleting a sent e-mail so many seconds after the recipient opens the e-mail. (How many remember the original "Mission Impossible" TV show?) I pulled that trick on my brothers but forgot and left the "self delete" feature "On" when sent to someone else. Fortunately, they thought their "disappearing e-mail" was funny. Further, forwards can be loaded with "phone homes" and sly tricks. I peeked underneath one forward with unusually beautiful pictures, and the HTML was loaded with "phone homes" to a foreign country. I cleaned out all of the suspicious HTML and started fresh before I forwarded the pictures on. Woody -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Using my e-mail address It is--but it is also illegal and while they don't seem to catch those who are out to harm us--they may well catch you. <g> I'd not do it were I you. Joan ============= [email protected] writes: So it's pretty easy to spoof e-mail addresses. **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

What is a "phone home"? -----Original Message----- From: Woody Woodworth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 5:09 pm Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Using my e-mail address The spoofing was experimenatal and restricted to a few times years ago to someone I knew well (my brothers), and only for something both harmless and rediculous but slightly plausible. By the way, there is a free trial program that permits one to track receipt of e-mails, how many times and when an e-mail is opened, the general location of the recipient, and more. Further, one can pull a "Mission Impossible" feat of deleting a sent e-mail so many seconds after the recipient opens the e-mail. (How many remember the original "Mission Impossible" TV show?) I pulled that trick on my brothers but forgot and left the "self delete" feature "On" when sent to someone else. Fortunately, they thought their "disappearing e-mail" was funny. Further, forwards can be loaded with "phone homes" and sly tricks. I peeked underneath one forward with unusually beautiful pictures, and the HTML was loaded with "phone homes" to a foreign country. I cleaned out all of the suspicious HTML and started fresh before I forwarded the pictures on. Woody -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Using my e-mail address It is--but it is also illegal and while they don't seem to catch those who are out to harm us--they may well catch you. <g> I'd not do it were I you. Joan ============= In a message dated 8/8/2008 3:26:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: So it's pretty easy to spoof e-mail addresses. ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In a message dated 8/5/2008 6:26:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Patricia, have you thought about putting them in folders? You can label the folders alphabetically, or by subject, or in any other way that makes it easier for you to find the one you want. This is a good idea. I did that and it is a big help, but it did take a lot of time to sort them when I first decided to do it. I would say to do a little at a time. Dee **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

In a message dated 8/6/2008 8:45:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: My husband has everything the same as I do, except I have MS XP Professional version 5.1.2600 and he has Vista and he doesn't get knocked off. I have Vista and this happens to me all the time. I don't know enough about what I'm doing to figure out if it's AOL or something else. I use AOL to get on line and I never had this problem until I got my new computer last year and installed the new AOL. But, in the scheme of things, meaning life, it's a small problem. It's just frustrating when I'm typing a letter and lose it. I'm learning to do it off line. Sigh. Dee **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

I don't know how many of you read Consumer Reports, but the current issue tested and ranked Internet Security software and McAfee came out with an excellent ranking. However, they didn't mention the free version of the software and I contacted them to see if they knew if the free software offered by AOL and other ISPs was as affective as the version they tested. The reply I received stated that while they hadn't tested the free version they believed that it would have the same excellent level of protection against malware but they added: "Other features of the commercial suite, including PC cleanup, identity protection, and network utilities, are missing, according to this web page: http://daol.aol.com/security/checklist/. " Of course, the AOL version does include the SpyZapper software and there are plenty of other places to obtain the other features should you want them--but it would seem to me that the lack of all that "stuff" actually makes the free version more attactive to me as it would be less of a drain on your computer's resources. I thought others might be interested in this information. Joan **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

The spoofing was experimenatal and restricted to a few times years ago to someone I knew well (my brothers), and only for something both harmless and rediculous but slightly plausible. By the way, there is a free trial program that permits one to track receipt of e-mails, how many times and when an e-mail is opened, the general location of the recipient, and more. Further, one can pull a "Mission Impossible" feat of deleting a sent e-mail so many seconds after the recipient opens the e-mail. (How many remember the original "Mission Impossible" TV show?) I pulled that trick on my brothers but forgot and left the "self delete" feature "On" when sent to someone else. Fortunately, they thought their "disappearing e-mail" was funny. Further, forwards can be loaded with "phone homes" and sly tricks. I peeked underneath one forward with unusually beautiful pictures, and the HTML was loaded with "phone homes" to a foreign country. I cleaned out all of the suspicious HTML and started fresh before I forwarded the pictures on. Woody -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Using my e-mail address It is--but it is also illegal and while they don't seem to catch those who are out to harm us--they may well catch you. <g> I'd not do it were I you. Joan ============= In a message dated 8/8/2008 3:26:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: So it's pretty easy to spoof e-mail addresses.

The only time I *wished* I could become a spammer is to spam those who spam us. LOL Of course, then they'd have another active email address to spam me--again. <frown> On 8/8/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > It is--but it is also illegal and while they don't seem to catch those who > are out to harm us--they may well catch you. <g> I'd not do it were I you.

It is--but it is also illegal and while they don't seem to catch those who are out to harm us--they may well catch you. <g> I'd not do it were I you. Joan In a message dated 8/8/2008 3:26:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: So it's pretty easy to spoof e-mail addresses. **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

It's amazing what those clever spoofers out there can do. As it is generally a one time event with the originator, all one can do is delete spoofed mail. As the spoofed e-mail address is your very own e-mail address, certainly you don't want to report your address to AOL as a spammer. While doing web page design, I discovered that I could design a form that sent guest information to any address, and any "from" address could be inserted. I had a lot of fun with that. I sent e-mail to my brothers from President Bush with his correct e-mail address, congratulating them how nice their front yards looked when the presidential motorcade happened to drive by their house, and other silly stuff. So it's pretty easy to spoof e-mail addresses. Woody ================== On 8/8/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just received an e-mail with my e-mail address as the return address. > I have not opened it as it appears to be a porno e-mail. How does this > happen and do I just put it in my spam folder? Or do I report it or forward it > to AOL? > > Cynthia

This is always spam or phishing. It happens when someone else's machine has gotten a virus that grabs all their contact addresses... or when a spammer gets your address from somewhere online... and the spammer "forges" your address as the sender. I just delete. If I click spam and it empties the spam folder with my own address as sender, I have always wondered if my address would be later deemed as "spam". As well, I'm not sure how postmasters deal with it when a User complains their own email was forged as sender. Judy On 8/8/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just received an e-mail with my e-mail address as the return address. > I have not opened it as it appears to be a porno e-mail. How does this > happen and do I just put it in my spam folder? Or do I report it or forward it > to AOL? > > Cynthia

Cynthia- This happens when a spammer forges "spoofs" your email address to send spam. You can just delete it or report it as spam -- but I'm always leery or reporting spam that comes allegedly from you. I'm not sure I trust that anyone would take the time to sort through headers to find the actual sender. In Internet slang this type of spammer action is called a "Joe job." Joan In a message dated 8/8/2008 2:06:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I have just received an e-mail with my e-mail address as the return address. I have not opened it as it appears to be a porno e-mail. How does this happen and do I just put it in my spam folder? Or do I report it or forward it to AOL? Cynthia **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )