Things are clearer, though not better. Over the past 30 hours or so a spammer has sent out thousands of emails using forged sender names and addresses at the Tributaries.org domain. The messages tout penny stocks from a shady Canadian corporation called Adsero, which has gone in and out of business and bankruptcy for some time. Their corporate web site looks great but has almost no information, and provides no means of contacting the corporation other than by telephone. More than a thousand of these spams have bounced back to me from corporate, personal and even religious entities all over the world. One bounce came from a non-profit committee established to aid victims of a massacre. These spammers have neither conscience nor shame. As a result, Tributaries.org as a sending address has been added to several spammer blacklists. There is a very real risk that my ability to send mail from my domain will be cut off. I am doing my best to learn about big-time spamming and "spoofing" (sending mail from forged addresses), and sending my own "Help! I'm innocent!" messages to the spam blacklists, but most of this is still over my head. The blacklists, of course, will not clear my domain from suspicion until the spammers, whoever they are, have felt the heat of detection closing in on them, and moved on to another forged address. If at some point mail to my address bounces, you can continue to reach me at brooks-ne-admin@rootsweb.com jose357@adelphia.net None of this should affect the web site's availability in any way. I hope the email difficulties will be over in a few days. Thanks, Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================