good morning list members: several layers of filters are in place to catch and hold messages that contain commercial advertising, scam letters, SPAM and similar invasive messages. try as hard as we do, there is always one or two messages that make it through to the list. what better way to reach a large group of people with so little effort? yesterday one such message got through to one of the lists in my care. it was a scam letter offering to share millins of dollars being held in an african country. (i'm told that many letters such as this may actually have been written by prison inmates.) please know that this list will never knowingly subject you to any advertising, never ask that you identify yourselves, never ask for any means oof identification, etc. if you receive such a message, delete it immediately. if you have any doubts at all as to the legitimacy of a message, contact me ASAP. thanks, sorry for the interruption. everyone in now free to return to our mutual real work. find great joy in your work! allen murray

Allen: May I also say that those letters about sharing the African (or whatever county listed) millions should also be reported to your ISP and to the spam cops. We have had one lady imprisoned in our state because she fell for it and embezzled money from the company she worked for. Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:47 AM Subject: [INLAWREN] administrivia good morning list members: several layers of filters are in place to catch and hold messages that contain commercial advertising, scam letters, SPAM and similar invasive messages. try as hard as we do, there is always one or two messages that make it through to the list. what better way to reach a large group of people with so little effort? yesterday one such message got through to one of the lists in my care. it was a scam letter offering to share millins of dollars being held in an african country. (i'm told that many letters such as this may actually have been written by prison inmates.) please know that this list will never knowingly subject you to any advertising, never ask that you identify yourselves, never ask for any means oof identification, etc. if you receive such a message, delete it immediately. if you have any doubts at all as to the legitimacy of a message, contact me ASAP. thanks, sorry for the interruption. everyone in now free to return to our mutual real work. find great joy in your work! allen murray