CRERAR Listmembers - you've probably seen more spam hit the Mailing Lists at Rootsweb recently. They are formatted all pretty much the same and are all SPAM ! They all begin with a benign greeting like 'Hi !' Or 'Get a load of this !' and then a URL usually in blue as an active hyperlink. Not much if anything after that. If you READ the letters and symbols in the link, you can usually detect some words that are not normally included in PROPER eMails. DVD, TV, Cars, Watches, Condominiums, Free Money if you send shipping costs, plus more new avenues of making money hand over fist [you bet] are what is being offered, those words are occasionally viewable in the URL. Don't get sucked in....if you WANT to clik it, the spam has done its job !!! These are always deleted from the Archives of every Mailing List that is hit but it takes time. I am the Administrator of a few small surname Lists so the chances of having someone's eMail address book HIJACKED is very slim.....but its been happening at a faster rate in the past few days. BE ON THE WATCH for suspect eMails and DO NOT FORWARD THEM BACK TO ANY LIST evern if you are asking about it. DELETE it right away. Then you can ask the person who sent it if they really did send it. If you feel you MUST have some of the infected site in the eMail, PLEASE REMOVE PART OF THE URL. That makes it ineffective and it will not send anyone else who gets it to any website whether its legit or not. All of the Lists I 'own' are very small and I hope no subscribers are hijacked but we have to remain watchful, sometimes computers are shared and unsuspecting people see these and clik them. That puts you at risk of infection by malware too. Just DELETE it. DON'T GO to it. If it turns out to be legitimate and someone sent a REAL genealogical website in that format with no explanation, just the URL, they deserve being deleted. You can get the URL again from the List Archives if its OK. Use the Homepage for that Rootsweb Mailing List and select BROWSE to get all posts in date order. Just give it a few days to be REMOVED so you won't clik on the offending link. Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma USA / Admin of the CRERAR List ================================================