So Far fortunately these haven't shown up on the BC list, but thought I would pass on this on to you all. Harry ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Stella Stanger <sstanger@sfu.ca> To: kent-eng@rootsweb.com; hammond123hammond@btinternet.com Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] Admin - Spam messages appearing on the Kent List Hi Stuart,  Noticed that there have been a couple /perhaps more - of these messages also posted to the Sussex Mail List.  Don't know if the administrator is aware of same. Cheers, Stella At 11:30 PM 17/09/2011, you wrote: >Hi All, > >There have been a couple of recent attempts to place spam emails on >the Kent List. I have reported those concerned and removed them from >the Kent List membership. > >It seems likely that these email addresses were added in the last >few days, but the spam filters used by RootsWeb do not seem to have >caught them before their postings made it to the Kent List. > >I am asking all members to maintain an air of vigilance, please do >not click on strange urls appearing in the body text of emails and >look out for the usual signs of spam, which are that the proper >signature of the person is not usually present, the wording of the >text often makes little sense and usually the message has nothing to >do with genealogy. > >I have reported the matter to RootsWeb and hope that they can >improve the filters used to stop these sorts of attacks. > >Please note any email address which does post a SPAM message will be >removed and not allowed to rejoin under any circumstances. You >should keep your virus awareness up to date and try to ensure that >your email address is not used to spread viral messages. > >Regards > >Stuart Hammond >List Administrator Kent List > >