Darrell A. Martin wrote: > On 11/17/2011 2:02 PM, Mary D. Taffet wrote: >> Tom, >> >> You should * NEVER * send e-mail coming through Rootsweb (via the listname-admin@rootsweb.com forwarding address) to SpamCop, or any other spam reporting service. This only results in Rootsweb being marked as a spammer. Instead just delete them. >> >> Your suggestion is a good one, but I'm sure it wouldn't be high on anybody's priority list -- unless perhaps they themselves are getting equally inundated with spam every day. >> >> -- Mary > > Tom: > > Do not lose sight of one crucial fact; as list admin, you are a key part > of the *defense* against all sorts of inappropriate traffic. You are not > a victim! > > An offensive lineman in football might as well gripe about all those > mean people who try to go around him and hit his quarterback. It is one > of *his* primary functions to stop it! > > There are a number of ways to reduce the impact of junk coming through > the -admin address. If you can provide common examples we can probably > come up with multiple solutions. If you find you simply can no longer > handle the responsibility (and there are perfectly good reasons why you > might not be able to, it is not a criticism) then the answer is to find > someone who can take over -- in whole or in part. Darrell may be right, but -- I don't see the admin's job as including being an anti-_pam warrior for the universe. Seems to me, as an admin, my job is to keep the stuff of MY lists, whether I do by deleting it from the pending file or by reporting it to someone before I delete it. Particularly since, IME, reporting 4 of 'em gets me 16 more within a couple hours, and reporting those 16 gets me too-many-to-count more in the next couple hours. Whereas, simply deleting the first 4 gets me 0 more in the next 24-hours. Cheryl

singhals wrote: > Darrell may be right, but -- > > I don't see the admin's job as including being an anti-_pam > warrior for the universe. Seems to me, as an admin, my job > is to keep the stuff of MY lists, whether I do by deleting > it from the pending file or by reporting it to someone > before I delete it. I agree. Whilst it never hurts to go the extra mile on occasion, there's only so many extra miles you can do before it gets too exhausting. > Particularly since, IME, reporting 4 of 'em gets me 16 more > within a couple hours, and reporting those 16 gets me > too-many-to-count more in the next couple hours. Whereas, > simply deleting the first 4 gets me 0 more in the next 24-hours. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this. I've stopped reporting them now for exactly that reason. I know it doesn't help train the filters but there's a limit on how much time (and patience) I have to deal with these idiots who only want to spoil other people's pleasure in our hobby or other legitimate uses of the net. Slightly different tack, I stopped reporting phishing mails to my bank because I noticed every time I did, I had a pile more. Since I stopped last year I've had just one (touch wood!! <G>) -- 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/