Hi Bret, which reunion(s) are you referring to? Wayne Busbice In a message dated 2/2/2010 1:01:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, bret@busby.net writes: On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, TOM F DUNKLIN wrote: > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:44:18 -0800 (PST) > From: TOM F DUNKLIN <dunk1432@verizon.net> > Reply-To: busby@rootsweb.com > To: busby@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BUSBY] Vacation reply > > I didn't think that this type of posting was allowed on Rootsweb.com and yet these postings keep popping up here from time to time. Is this allowed and how is it happening? > > There was one of these a couple of weeks previous. I believe that such messages use email spoofing; that is, they pretend to be sent from the named sender. All we can really do, is ignore them, and hope that they will go away. The best thing, is to simply ignore them. They are irritating, but we cannot do much about them. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BUSBY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Quoting Buzgen2@aol.com: > Hi Bret, which reunion(s) are you referring to? Wayne Busbice > > > In a message dated 2/2/2010 1:01:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > bret@busby.net writes: > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, TOM F DUNKLIN wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:44:18 -0800 (PST) >> From: TOM F DUNKLIN <dunk1432@verizon.net> >> Reply-To: busby@rootsweb.com >> To: busby@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [BUSBY] Vacation reply >> >> I didn't think that this type of posting was allowed on Rootsweb.com and > yet these postings keep popping up here from time to time. Is this > allowed and how is it happening? >> >> > > There was one of these a couple of weeks previous. > > I believe that such messages use email spoofing; that is, they pretend > to be sent from the named sender. > > All we can really do, is ignore them, and hope that they will go away. > > The best thing, is to simply ignore them. They are irritating, but we > cannot do much about them. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... My message did not relate to any reunion - only to the spam message that gave a subject line of "Vacation Reply". My response to the complainant in an off-list communication, included the advice to institute a filter to automatically delete all incoming messages with the To value "rootweb com" AND the Subject value "Vacation Reply". Bret Busby List Administrator ........................................................................................