Unfortunately, we are still having problems with Hotmail and AOL accounts getting high-jacked. The majority of these accounts are "closed" accounts, i.e. accounts where someone now has a new addy and did not ever truly close off the old account AND unsub it from their Rootsweb lists. The rest are current accounts where the person has not bothered to change their password. If your old account, or your current account, gets high-jacked and that addy is subscribed to a Rootsweb list, the spam will post through the list and get distributed to all subscribers of that list. When this happens, do NOT report the message as spam to your own ISP. Report it to the administrator of the list [me] if you think the administrator has not already seen the post. If you report the message to your own ISP, you are not reporting the high-jacked account nor the spammer - you are reporting Rootsweb as a spammer resulting in all Rootsweb mail to you and others being rejected. When your ISP tells Rootsweb that you have reported Rootsweb as a spammer, Rootsweb assumes that you no longer wish to belong to the Rootsweb lists and the computer will unsub you from all your lists. If you report it to your own ISP, you will also be screwing things up for all other subscribers. Aggie-Rose and I see when spam gets posted on a message and we are on it asap. We moderate or unsub the high-jacked account and get the Helpdesk to remove the post. If the Helpdesk sees that the high-jacked account is subbed in to more than one list, they will unsub the account from all lists. If you have any questions about this, please write to me directly and I will answer your questions. Janet

Add Comcast to that Janet C