Well said Darrel. Wish we could get the message through to those idiots. On 10/02/2012, Darrell A. Martin <darrellm@sprynet.com> wrote: > Greetings: > > Since so many people attempt to post to RootsWeb lists, or on the > boards, asking for an opinion on the same subjects, I thought I would > save them some time. Here in one convenient spot: > > Subject. What would an MBA do for my career? > Reply. Nothing, I am retired. > > Subject. zkg > Reply. qwerty > > Subject. Welcome! > Reply. No, you are not. > > Subject. There is no happiness in private life? > Reply. In mine? Yes, without you, there is. > > Subject. ALERT for genealogists > Reply. I am! For spammers, too. > > Subject. 20mg - $1.30 Any Order Size No Rx. > Reply. I'll take 53,000. Send now. > The check is in the mail. > > Subject. vikkkaaqjrra > Reply. Not interested in taking > anything that makes my fingers > twitch on the keyboard like that. > > Subject. All night long > Reply. Only when the arthritis > flares up. Then I use the 'Net > to keep me distracted. > > OK, I feel better now. > > Darrell > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

OK, so now we have all this really unnecessary [expletive deleted] "text" in the archives twice, which is two times too many, surely. PSW Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld

Greetings: Since so many people attempt to post to RootsWeb lists, or on the boards, asking for an opinion on the same subjects, I thought I would save them some time. Here in one convenient spot: Subject. What would an MBA do for my career? Reply. Nothing, I am retired. Subject. zkg Reply. qwerty Subject. Welcome! Reply. No, you are not. Subject. There is no happiness in private life? Reply. In mine? Yes, without you, there is. Subject. ALERT for genealogists Reply. I am! For spammers, too. Subject. 20mg - $1.30 Any Order Size No Rx. Reply. I'll take 53,000. Send now. The check is in the mail. Subject. vikkkaaqjrra Reply. Not interested in taking anything that makes my fingers twitch on the keyboard like that. Subject. All night long Reply. Only when the arthritis flares up. Then I use the 'Net to keep me distracted. OK, I feel better now. Darrell

Someone remind me /how/ I find the help-desk? (g) Wish the book-marks told me WHY I bookmarked something ... Cheryl

When in doubt, you can always go to the Rootsweb homepage. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ The link under "Help" should take you where you want. Deloris Williams -------------------------------------------------- From: "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 5:47 PM To: <Listowners@rootsweb.com> Subject: [LO] The memory's the 2nd to go ... > Someone remind me /how/ I find the help-desk? (g) > Wish the book-marks told me WHY I bookmarked something ... > > Cheryl > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm in the position that I want to clear my commitment of some Roots Web mail lists and want to put up for adoption all the following: They are all VERY quiet: CANADIAN-TRAIN- DISASTERS MERCHANT MARINE RI-CEMETERIES SCBATTLES TN-MYSTERIES TX-CEMETERY-RESEARCH TX-MYSTERIES TX-VINTAGEPHOTOS VT-CEMETERIES Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 Member -Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://www.okgensoc.org/ Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net List Administrator for 99 mail lists. 32 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 12 Miscellaneous / 8 Canadian & 12 Province & Territories Ghost Towns lists.

I've discovered a half dozen or so lists (so far) that I fell off of, including two that I admin, but I will check the rest of them and deal with all that tomorrow when it's not so late and I can do it properly. David E. Cann decann@infionline.net or on Skype at "david.e.cann" -----Original Message----- From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darrell A. Martin Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 9:19 PM To: listowners@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] RootsWb-Earthlink impasse is over On 2/2/2012 7:48 PM, Barbara & George Grenier wrote: > Well, I haven't gotten anything > > Barbara Barbara: If you are subscribed to busy lists, you probably bounced off. Resubscribe. ::grumble:: Darrell

Fran Pillsbury wrote: > First RootsWeb mail since Sunday just received. 8-) Thanks for the news. I had three members bounced off one of my lists today. I'll resub them shortly. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/

On 2/2/2012 7:48 PM, Barbara & George Grenier wrote: > Well, I haven't gotten anything > > Barbara Barbara: If you are subscribed to busy lists, you probably bounced off. Resubscribe. ::grumble:: Darrell

This is kind of in the category of lose/lose but when the block started I posted that Earthlink users whose list mail was being blocked should get a list of all subscribed lists from MyAccount...since Password Central wasn't a viable option because they wouldn't get the email. Of course, those who were blocked wouldn't see the email advising that they get a list of subscribed lists. <g> I would imagined only the busiest lists would be ones you might have been unsubbed from. Try to check on the lists you normally receive mail from on a daily basis...it won't be ALL of them. Joan In a message dated 2/2/2012 6:23:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, decann@infionline.net writes: Darrell, One clarification. I DO MONITOR SUBS/UNSUBS, and all subs and unsub notifications are filtered and put in a folder for thirty days before they are automatically deleted. Unfortunately, my email comes through an EarthLink domain so none of those notifications were received, and I am about to go through my own subscriptions to see what I have bounced off of myself. :-( David E. Cann decann@infionline.net or on Skype at "david.e.cann"

Darrell, One clarification. I DO MONITOR SUBS/UNSUBS, and all subs and unsub notifications are filtered and put in a folder for thirty days before they are automatically deleted. Unfortunately, my email comes through an EarthLink domain so none of those notifications were received, and I am about to go through my own subscriptions to see what I have bounced off of myself. :-( David E. Cann decann@infionline.net or on Skype at "david.e.cann" -----Original Message----- From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darrell A. Martin Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:49 PM To: 'Listowners List Posting' Subject: Re: [LO] RootsWb-Earthlink impasse is over On 2/2/2012 2:33 PM, Charani wrote: > Fran Pillsbury wrote: >> First RootsWeb mail since Sunday just received. 8-) > > Thanks for the news. I had three members bounced off one of my lists > today. I'll resub them shortly. Hi: It's not hardly over! On lists whose admins do not monitor unsubs, we Earthlink subscribers are going to be scrambling to get resubscribed. Ask me how I know.... :( Note: Not all Earthlink subscribers have @earthlink addresses. I would be one of those people with a seeming mismatch (I have had this sprynet address since the early 1990s). I am not calling it a disaster, but this is a real mess for me. I have other things to do. Note 2: It is easy to see which lists I *admin*, using Password Central. There is no apparent effect there, which is not surprising. But I subscribe to ... or used to subscribe to ... a number of lists that I do not admin. One in particular has been getting dozens of messages a day (software, with a major upgrade in late December). I was wondering what had happened. Darrell

Well, I haven't gotten anything Barbara At 12:27 PM 2/2/2012, Fran Pillsbury wrote: >First RootsWeb mail since Sunday just received. 8-) > >

Yep...never got that email...and I am surprised to find myself still subbed on here...but need to see if am still subbed to Newbie-Listowner...hint hint! ;) Lainee -----Original Message----- From: JYoung6180@aol.com Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:39 PM To: decann@infionline.net ; listowners@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] RootsWb-Earthlink impasse is over This is kind of in the category of lose/lose but when the block started I posted that Earthlink users whose list mail was being blocked should get a list of all subscribed lists from MyAccount...since Password Central wasn't a viable option because they wouldn't get the email. Of course, those who were blocked wouldn't see the email advising that they get a list of subscribed lists. <g> I would imagined only the busiest lists would be ones you might have been unsubbed from. Try to check on the lists you normally receive mail from on a daily basis...it won't be ALL of them. Joan

Same here...I monitor all the subs and unsubs and I never received any. I have gone through about half of my lists today and found 2 so far that I had to resub myself to. but most of my lists are quite slow. I will finish going through my lists tomorrow...at least to see which lists I myself bounced off of. Lainee <----wishing she had a magic 8 ball to tell her which lists she needs to go resub to! LOL -----Original Message----- From: David E. Cann Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:17 PM To: 'Listowners List Posting' Subject: Re: [LO] RootsWb-Earthlink impasse is over Darrell, One clarification. I DO MONITOR SUBS/UNSUBS, and all subs and unsub notifications are filtered and put in a folder for thirty days before they are automatically deleted. Unfortunately, my email comes through an EarthLink domain so none of those notifications were received, and I am about to go through my own subscriptions to see what I have bounced off of myself. :-( David E. Cann decann@infionline.net or on Skype at "david.e.cann"

On 2/2/2012 2:33 PM, Charani wrote: > Fran Pillsbury wrote: >> First RootsWeb mail since Sunday just received. 8-) > > Thanks for the news. I had three members bounced off one of my lists > today. I'll resub them shortly. Hi: It's not hardly over! On lists whose admins do not monitor unsubs, we Earthlink subscribers are going to be scrambling to get resubscribed. Ask me how I know.... :( Note: Not all Earthlink subscribers have @earthlink addresses. I would be one of those people with a seeming mismatch (I have had this sprynet address since the early 1990s). I am not calling it a disaster, but this is a real mess for me. I have other things to do. Note 2: It is easy to see which lists I *admin*, using Password Central. There is no apparent effect there, which is not surprising. But I subscribe to ... or used to subscribe to ... a number of lists that I do not admin. One in particular has been getting dozens of messages a day (software, with a major upgrade in late December). I was wondering what had happened. Darrell

First RootsWeb mail since Sunday just received. 8-)

ruggeri michael wrote: > Is there a command for moderating messages on my list? I want to > delete spam before it goes out to the group. If you want to moderate an individual, you go to the membership list and check the mod box then save the change. If you want the moderate the whole list on a temporary basis (eg a a couple of days for a specific problem), you can use the emergency moderation option which is on the general options page and again save the change. If you don't save the required change, it won't happen. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/

Joan, Gerhard is wonderful. Cannot say enough nice things about how he handles these problems. I am dealing with one AOL user now who belongs to MANY lists and who has been hacked and just spammed everybody: 1) "I didn't do it" "They can't get to my account to use it to spam people." 2) "If I did do it, it is not my fault if I didn't bother to change my password after all the warnings over the last year because they didn't apply to me". 3)" It won't do any good to change my password now cause it will just happen again". 4) The Administrator [me!] is paranoiac, too strict, mini-hysterical and a couple of other wonderful things. He stays on Moderate. he really is a helpful ole dude, but sure doesn't want to be wrong here. Janet

You can put specific posters on MOD in the member list check MOD for them You can for a "short time" put the entire list on MOD Under general options Emergency moderation of all list traffic. ========= Is there a command for moderating messages on my list? I want to delete spam before it goes out to the group. Thanks

We DO do that and Gerhard's notice when he unsubs the person explains what they need to do to resolve the problem. The infected emails that hit the list from these hijacked accounts have an affect on more than just the poster...they can result in other subscribers becoming infected if they click the links blindly without thinking and it also can get other innocent people unsubbed from lists if they accidentally report the spam as BEING SPAM to to their ISP and the ISP reports back to RootsWeb that this person said RW mail was spam. Joan In a message dated 2/1/2012 10:35:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, mygenrw2@gmail.com writes: Problem is the person who spammed the list most likely did not originate that mesage or even know it was sent but suffers getting removed for something they did not do and that was why we had MOD in the first place so then now in this case what good is a list admin if we cant mod these people and work with them getting repaired?? I can understand this if all lists had no admin to use MOD. Just my ideas.