Thank you for your concern and follow-up. Spaming can be very annoying. Dennis Lancaster from Michigan Searching for the ALLEN family in Jackson Co., IN -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 2:02 AM Subject: [INJACKSO-L] Recent Spam Sent to Jackson County Mailing List >Hi, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that I'm trying to find out what >caused the recent rash of spam (junk mail) that we received on this list. >I've forwarded these messages to RootsWeb so they can look at them. From the >response they sent me, it seems that sometimes the people sending these >messages figure out a way to send them to the list without going through >RootsWeb. I'm not sure if that's the case for the messages we received. > >You should know RootsWeb's "spam detective" program has stopped a number of >other junk messages from hitting our list this week. > >I noticed that the offending messages all started out with "{not a >subscriber}" in the Subject line, so that might be something to watch for on >future messages if you don't want to waste your time opening up junk messages. > >I will give you an update about the situation if I find out anything more. > >--Dolores Lombardi > > >