----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny" <jenny.wellington@bigpond.com> To: <aus-nsw-sydney-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:37 AM Subject: Remember to whitelist me Hi Jenny I didnt notice in time that you have white listed the Sydney and Hunter Valley mailing list addresses too A mailing list address cant white list your email address or any one elses . You will not get any SPAM email from Rootsweb so its a pointless excersise >. > I have whitelisted you and that means that I will > receive all the emails you send to me. > I would appreciate it if you would whitelist my email > address: jenny.wellington@bigpond.com in your spam > filter. This might be just OK for private email but NBG for mailing list mail . Suggest you try Mailwasher ........ That way you have complete control on what you down load into your computers mail boxes . You can read but computers can only recognise commands and thats not 100% perfect with any SPAM email . My ISP has a pretty good anti SPAM set up but some still get through . I pinged 4 this morning . I dont mind reading the occasional Nigerian email . Their turn of phrase is quite quaint :-) Bye MargM Sydney List Admin and Hunter Valley

MargM wrote: [snip] > This might be just OK for private email but NBG for mailing list mail > . Suggest you try Mailwasher ........ That way you have complete > control on what you down load into your computers mail boxes . You > can read but computers can only recognise commands and thats not 100% > perfect with any SPAM email . My ISP has a pretty good anti SPAM set > up but some still get through . I pinged 4 this morning . I dont mind > reading the occasional Nigerian email . Their turn of phrase is quite > quaint :-) I get around 50 spams per day on my 5 BigPond email accounts (mostly porn, drugs, "jobs", "investments"). I recently changed to ThunderBird mailer (free, and sibling of FireFox browser) and its adaptive spam filter is impressive even to an old computer hack like myself, but still only about 95% (but never yet to trash a real email, which is important to me). Choosing the right software makes a big difference. You don't *have* to use MS s/w for everything... BTW I have queried rootsweb and they insist their servers & archives are encrypted and secure - if you get spam on a list email, it did NOT come from the list, must have come from a lister's computer being infected and plundered - just something else to cope with ... Steve Sims PS The "Nigerian" spams (most seem to really come from ru) are indeed cute but easy to spot - as are the various "bank" spoofs - there is almost always a grammatical error somewhere - but watch out for the eBay spoofs, some of them are pretty well done and a single click in the email can install a keyboard virus or worse... in short, DO NOT CLICK ON AN EMAIL LINK unless you're certain where it comes from - don't believe what the text says it is, let your browser display the real URL in the bottom line (if it can't do this, change to FireFox). Even then it is possible in HTML to hide the true link, but this should start the bells ringing and lights flashing in your mind anyway. PPS Marg, does NBG stand for No Bloody Good? I like it but don't think it will translate OS :o) PPPS Anyone interested in William LONG, ex-Gloucestershire mariner, ticket-of-leave man, and farmer at Furrucabad?