I've noticed that the more I post on these lists, and I subscribe to many but this is the most recent one I have posted to, I notice that my spam increases, one even blatantly informed me that he had found my email address on one of the rootsweb lists. Since I haven't changed my email address for years because I have active queries on the web, I get more than my share of it than many, my traps are set to medium, so I just live with it. They've been doing it for a long time now. Maybe rootsweb can come up with a different system like so many forums have where you can contact other members. Often I post my email address in code which is fairly easy to figure out for most people so the spam bots won't pick it up.