I especially like the "lean and mean".....thanks for all of your hard work taking care of such an active mail list. Marsha in WV George W. Durman wrote: >Just a note to inform everyone that the Anti-SPAM filters at >Rootsweb have really been tightened up. There was just too >much SPAM being posted and it was working List administrators >to death trying to keep up with it. > >Some users have observed that their posts never showed up >in Lists, and I, as administrator, never saw them either. The >reason for that is that with the tightening of the rules, NO >posts containing HTML (Styled Text, Fancy Text, Colors, >Bolding, Underlining, Sizes, Tabs, Bullets, Forms, Tables, >etc., etc.) will be posted (as usual). The posters won't receive >any notification, and neither will the List Administrator. The >posts containing HTML will just disappear into the ether. > >Only "PLAIN TEXT" emails will be posted, so make sure >that you have your email program set to that setting. To be >on the safe side, do not include ANY kind of tags at the end >of your posts, no "Signatures", no long lists of surnames >being researched, etc. If you feel you MUST have some >sort of tagline, Rootsweb requires you have no more than >3 lines. IMHO, those long, long lists of surnames are a >waste of time, usually. And, including your place of >employment, duty title, address, phone number, etc., is >absolutely unnecessary. > >Let's try to keep the Lists "lean and mean", and this means >"snipping" out all unnecessary text from the body of an >email when you are replying. Quote back just enough of >the original message to make it clear to what you are >replying. > >Thanks, >Sarge >List Administrator > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >