I guess I didn't do a god job of explaining what I meant by moderating. My apologies. If you go to the list tools > ban > and put in gcgateway@rootsweb.com any board that is gatewayed will first have that post held in pending for admin review, from there you can delete any board post not suitable for the list. I did some snooping at the site of our least favorite spammer and they only spam the boards for which they claim to have a product for which means if you have a surname and they have no product for that surname that message board should be safe from spam. Therefore, I don't think it's necessary to ban the gateway address should that board be gatewayed to the list. What I'm trying to say is if you want to know if you have a board at risk for spam you can go to the spammers website and check out the list of surnames for which they claim to have products. I hope that better explains what I mean. J. Asche On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:45 AM, W David Samuelsen <dsam52@sampubco.com> wrote: > I meant this to go to the list. > > Joan Asche, > > The last 2 rounds they did, they hit more than 1,000 boards. Listadmins > won't know because not all are gatewayed. Moderating won't work, since > you have to get to message boards to report the posts as spam abuse then > RW does the rest of mass-posting removals. > > David Samuelsen > > On 11/20/2011 6:18 AM, JLA wrote: >> If you go to their website you will see a list of the so called books >> they have.  If a you admin admin a board on their list you can expect >> them to spamming your board.  If you don't see a surname on the list >> then your board is most likely safe. >> >> This worked for me.  I know which gateways to moderate and which I >> don't need too. >> >> Joan Asche