Fellow Bradford researchers, Just a short "P. S." to Erin's note, if I may. I am a subscriber to this list, but also Board Admin of the Bradford Message Board from which board posts come to this list. I agree with what Erin says about the value of the gateway, particularly for those of you who do not use the boards very much, but one "down" side of the gateway is that sometimes things do get through that should not. RootsWeb does an excellent job of removing posts from the boards almost immediately when something inappropriate is discovered, but unfortunately this does not stop the immediate posting to the lists. I am list and board admin of a few others, and Bradford is one of the few cases where I do not admin both sides, and in all cases I have the gateway open because of the overall value of doing so. The "positives," in my opinion, far outweigh the "negatives," as Erin has said. Actually, though, Bradford was not the only list and board hit by this particular spammer, as he hit well over a hundred of them, and in all cases the post on the board was removed within minutes. I do not want to take up any more list space, but if anyone wishes to discuss it off the list, I would welcome hearing from you. The spam, unfortunately, is one cost of making free list and board space available for genealogy purposes accessible to the greatest number of people possible. David E. Cann decann@infionline.net Bradford Message Board Admin -----Original Message----- From: Erin Bradford [mailto:eabradfo@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:25 AM To: BRADFORD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRADFORD-L] spam coming to the lists Hi all. As you know, the message boards for these surnames on ancestry.com are gatewayed to the lists. I want to keep them that way because it provides more opportunity to connect with a cousin; however, the downside is that when "spam" is posted to the message boards, they are automatically sent to the lists. Lately, there has been a string of these to be posted. Only the Bradford and Eller list has been affected so far, but for future reference, anything gatewayed from the message boards to the list that refers to getting out of print books from astrologos.com, just ignore it. Those messages are automatically deleted from the message boards when they are posted, but still come to the lists and there is nothing I can do about that unless I don't allow gatewaying. I am a librarian, so if anyone needs help locating out of print books for inter-library loan, please feel free to email me with as much info on the books that you have as possible. Don't be afraid to look on ebay or with amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com for out of print books as well as they have used bookstores and other resources. Thanks. Erin <snip