As much as I hate to do it, it looks like we may have to close our lists temporarily to non-subscribers due to the ingenuity of these persistent spammers who don't give up trying to break through the filters. I am going to wait a day or two to make a decision on officially closing the list, but if any non-member wants to post to the list, they can do so by subscribing and then unsubscribing at a later date if they don't want to remain on the list. The advertisers won't go to that much trouble as they want to spam a large number of sites at once. If the word spam is new to you, I ask your patience in dealing with this. This is the first time we have been spammed on these lists, but the same spammer is bombarding us with multiple copies of the message. Rootsweb is filtering most of them out, but if one does make it through, delete it and be rest assure that steps are being taken to stop it. If they can break us down and get even one of you to reply to them, they will have a new e-mail address to use as their own to send out the next batch. Complain only to me or to abuse@rootsweb.com if you get any further unsavory messages. DO NOT REPLY TO THE SENDER. Norma Jennings Listowner IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com IAHENRY-L@rootsweb.com >From leverich@bl-5.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 1 10:04:40 1998 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA27602 for <IALOUISA-L@fp-1.rootsweb.com>; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bl-5.rootsweb.com (bw-5.rootsweb.com [208.1.40.117]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA28832; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:36 -0700 Received: from bl-5.rootsweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bl-5.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA04052; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:31 -0700 Message-Id: <199807011704.KAA04052@bl-5.rootsweb.com> To: gentzler@gte.net cc: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com, Debra Stover <djstover@erols.com>, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: IALOUISA-D Digest V98 #38 In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:48:07 PDT. <3599BF86.BA77EC2D@gte.net> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:04:30 -0700 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> We're doing all we can, but these bozos are actively trying to penetrate our spam filters. Makes it very difficult to keep them out. I would *strongly* recommend you "close" your lists so only subscribers can post. That would keep this crud out of your subscribers' mailboxes. -B -- Your message was: (from "Ed Gentzler") > Debra, > > Let me assure you, this garbage is NOT typical or even usual. Iv'e been > subscribing to a number of roots lists and digests for over a year now > and this is the first time I've ever seen anything of this sort! Hardly > ever even see any ordinary advertizing or spam duye to the filters that > are used on this. > > I'm forwarding this to the RootsWeb guru who will definitely do > something about it. > > Ed > > IALOUISA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Subject: > > > > IALOUISA-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 38 > > snipped to avoid repeating the obnoxious post.