Hi all, the problem is obviously much bigger than I realised, but I still have not personally seen one spam messages and I am listed with two addresses, one for list mail and one for digest, mind you I have not had a digest since 3rd August. I can see in the archive that there a lot for today. At the present time I cannot login to the Admin side of the list- page unobtainable. This from another Admin SPAM is getting through to the list. There's a temporary problem with SPAM filtering for the lists, but RootsWeb is aware of it and working on a fix. In the interim, IF I could log in to the admin pages I could filter manually, this would mean some delays between the time you post a message and it reaches the list. Please just delete any SPAM you receive without responding or commenting on the list. My apologies for any inconvenience you may experience. What you are getting is what the admins normally see when the filters are active- we then check through to ensure they are spam and then we delete them. Terry On 14-Aug-16 14:39 PM, edbar wrote: > Hi > This morning I had 21 of these spam messages, and oh yes, they are > coming via rootsweb. > 3 from Warwickshire, 10 from Devon, 6 from Boston-States and 2 from > Nfld-Lab. > Of the 21 above 15 had been caught and sent to my "Junk folder" and 6 > were in my in-basket. > Ed > > -----Original Message----- From: Brad Rogers > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 3:25 AM > To: Devon ML > Subject: Re: [DEV] What's going on > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:12:30 +0100 > Terry Leaman <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning I had 21 > Hello Terry, > >> I think it very unlikely that the messages are coming through Rootsweb, > > Ah, but they *are* coming via RW. Message headers show this to be so. > Ancestry admit they have issues and worryingly, admins are unable to do > anything about because Ancestry have turned of moderation. > > Further, it's no coincidence that as soon as the RootsWeb lists came > back up, my daily spam message count went up from one or two to thirty > to forty. > >> If they were everyone would get them. More likely that their addresses > > No. That would depend on their spam filtering. Some ISPs are better at > it than others. > >> have been hacked and used. I, as one of the admins, am not seeing any >> scam messages coming from the Devon list. > > Then you're not looking in the right place. Devon is one of the worst > affected lists I'm on. >

Hi Terry: Many thanks for handling this mess. Cheers Brian > On 14 Aug 2016, at 21:09, Terry Leaman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, the problem is obviously much bigger than I realised, but I still have not personally seen one spam messages and I am listed with two addresses, one for list mail and one for digest, mind you I have not had a digest since 3rd August. I can see in the archive that there a lot for today. > > At the present time I cannot login to the Admin side of the list- page unobtainable. > > This from another Admin > > SPAM is getting through to the list. There's a temporary problem with SPAM filtering for the lists, but RootsWeb is aware of it and > working on a fix. In the interim, IF I could log in to the admin pages I could filter manually, this would mean some delays between the time you post a message and it reaches the list. > > Please just delete any SPAM you receive without responding or commenting on the list. > > My apologies for any inconvenience you may experience. > > What you are getting is what the admins normally see when the filters are active- we then check through to ensure they are spam and then we delete them. > > Terry > > > On 14-Aug-16 14:39 PM, edbar wrote: >> Hi >> This morning I had 21 of these spam messages, and oh yes, they are coming via rootsweb. >> 3 from Warwickshire, 10 from Devon, 6 from Boston-States and 2 from Nfld-Lab. >> Of the 21 above 15 had been caught and sent to my "Junk folder" and 6 were in my in-basket. >> Ed >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Brad Rogers >> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 3:25 AM >> To: Devon ML >> Subject: Re: [DEV] What's going on >> >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:12:30 +0100 >> Terry Leaman <[email protected]> wrote: >> This morning I had 21 >> Hello Terry, >> >>> I think it very unlikely that the messages are coming through Rootsweb, >> >> Ah, but they *are* coming via RW. Message headers show this to be so. >> Ancestry admit they have issues and worryingly, admins are unable to do >> anything about because Ancestry have turned of moderation. >> >> Further, it's no coincidence that as soon as the RootsWeb lists came >> back up, my daily spam message count went up from one or two to thirty >> to forty. >> >>> If they were everyone would get them. More likely that their addresses >> >> No. That would depend on their spam filtering. Some ISPs are better at >> it than others. >> >>> have been hacked and used. I, as one of the admins, am not seeing any >>> scam messages coming from the Devon list. >> >> Then you're not looking in the right place. Devon is one of the worst >> affected lists I'm on. >> > > ------------------------------------------ > 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 — School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU EMAIL = [email protected] PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/staff/profile/brian.randell