You have a thankless job but you are doing it well. Keep up the good work. Some of us are lazy and complain first. Martin Peckham On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Brian Randell < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Terry: > > I trust everyone will pay attention to your request - which is of course > in line with the long-established rule given in the Devon FAQ file ( > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/DevonFAQ#MESSAGES), as follows: > "Please refrain from postings which are not of relevance to Devon genealogy > - such as messages concerned with genealogical software packages. In > particular, do not post messages about computer viruses to the list. > (Anyone ignoring this rule is liable to be automatically unsubscribed.) If > you have a query or information about a possible computer virus, send it > directly to the list owner, Vicki Lindsay Thauvin <[email protected]> or > to the list moderators Brian Randell <[email protected]> and Terry > Leaman <[email protected]> who will if appropriate communicate > its contents to the list. The reason for this rule is simple - fear of > viruses is such that any message on the mailing list about a virus is such > that, even if the message is itself timely and factually correct (something > which is far from always the case), it will lead to a whole host of follow > up messages, often of dubious accuracy, which themselves constitute a sort > of virus, and annoy many subscribers.” > > Cheers > > Brian > > List Admin Team > -- > School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, > NE1 7RU, UK > EMAIL = [email protected] PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 > FAX = +44 191 208 8232 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ > computing/staff/profile/brian.randell > > > On 16 Aug 2016, at 08:16, Terry Leaman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > We are well aware of how big the problem is!!!! Don't you think that the > admin team is as sick of it as you are? > > > > Until such time as Ancestry sort out the servers there is absolutely > nothing we can do. > > > > PLEASE DO NOT REPORT SPAM TO THE LIST- you're just making things worse. > > > > Terry > > > > list admin team. > > > > > > On 15-Aug-16 21:13 PM, William Hancock wrote: > >> If we don't report spam nothing will be done also it helps to let the > Admin know how big the problem is. It seems to me a lot of people are > having this problem if we just keep deleting and not reporting it then > nothing will be done. > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >