Folks, Unfortunately, when a list member gets a virus and their email is hacked, the Rootsweb listserv sometimes fails to filter out the message and it gets through to the list. We had one such example today. In the case of this AOL lister, she probably doesn't know she's been hacked and messages may not even get to her. What you should do if you receive a SPAM mail from the list: 1) Do NOT click on URL or reply to the message. Simply delete the message. 2) Do NOT report or flag the email as SPAM. Rootsweb will take care of that. (With AOL, and some other ISPs, if you do that you are immediately, and I mean immediately, unsubbed by the listserv. 3) Do contact the person privately if you like, to let them know, especially if you have an alternate address for him/her. 4) Do NOT forward the email intact to anyone else. 5) Do NOT repost the message to the list or reply on the list. As Listmom this is what I do when it happens: 1) Immediately put the person on "moderate" and attempt to let them know they've been hijacked. 3) Monitor the person's messages until there are no more virus emails, then restore their status. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Yvonne Bowers Listmom/Webmom CORNISH, CORNISH-GEN, CA-CORNISH <ybowers@gmail.com> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/cornishlib/cornishlib.htm Yvonne's Rootsweb Resource Page http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~yvonne/