Patricia O'Shea wrote: > I am a bit mystified by all these 'old' messages! Rootsweb had a problem with the distribution of mails in mid November and there is now a backlog of thousands of mails which are gradually coming through. On top of this Rootsweb are suffering a massive spam attack. You won't see the spam but list admins may be seeing some of it depending on how they have their lists set up. I seem to remember a similar problem around this time last year so I guess it's something to do with the time of years and idle young hands looking to make some seasonal cash.