Hi Chris.......you are right in assuming it comes from the soc.genealogy news groups. That is where I both read and post to the Carib List. That said......I have not used my real address on news groups for 5 years at least. They are continually *harvested* by spambots on here. But unfortunately for you, your Carib List posts, complete with their REAL addresses are on here and that is why you get the spam. See yours below my post?? How come your list is on here?? I can't think of any other genealogy List that is. I am a Moderator on Brit-Gen, and that is a Forum, not a List. No spam on that one. I don't think any other Rootsweb ones are on here, but no longer read genealogy ng's other than this one. Rather like the chicken and the egg, I suppose........but why not ask Rootsweb to disassociate the List from the news groups.......there are not all that many posts via the ng's. I believe this has come up a few times before, but due to the insane amount of spam on Usenet, they should listen to you. Cheers........Heather Figueroa "CM Codrington" <cmcod@optimum.net> wrote in message news:mailman.99.1264568120.1999.caribbean@rootsweb.com... > > > Hi Peter > unfortunately the filters at ancestry/Rootsweb are not perfect lately. > > I am not sure there is much I can do to block it as the machinery on my > admin side is very simple...all I can do is verify their apparent address > is > off the subscriber's list. In two cases recently, the apparent address of > the span source did not appear anywhere in our subscriber's lists yet got > through. Must be slippin in via the gateway with the old Soc Gen West > Indies > group. > > Hope all are well > Chris Cod >

Okay, I'll bite. What is the difference between news groups, forums, lists, and message boards? How do I tell? Cheers, Laura On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Heather wrote: > but why not ask > Rootsweb to disassociate the List from the news groups.......there > are not > all that many posts via the ng's. I believe this has come up a few > times > before, but due to the insane amount of spam on Usenet, they should > listen > to you. > >