On Wednesday 29 November 2006 9:01 am, Audrey Hancock wrote: > I get many of these coming through for "your consideration." > > > The xxxxxx@rootsweb.com mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for > your consideration at: > > http://lists9.rootsweb.com/mailman/admindb/xxxxxx > > Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of > pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. > > > > So far, all have been spam or ads. Is there a way as Board Administrator > that an automatic deletion of those items marked "Defer" can be taken care > of by an automatic letter back to the sender with the message to please > subcribe to the appropriate message list...or perhaps some other method. I > know some may not have a message list associated with the Message Board, so > perhaps this would be impossible. If a message list is associated with the > board, I would think this could be done...but being no expert, I don't > know. > > Audrey These do not come to you as Board Admin, but as List Admin. Since most are spam, a reply would be the worst possible response, which is why I turned off automatic notices right away! The very best thing is to click the choice to also send to: and put in defang@rootsweb.com , and then discard. The spam filters are getting better, and I'm seeing fewer spams every day. Valorie