That was the problem, it wasn't just one spammer that was coming through, it was coming from a multitude of addresses after the first ones went through. It started with one or two different email accounts posting a link, and I suspect some of the members were clicking onto the link because next, a bunch of new addresses would start coming through with spam, and it kept going like that for several days, each day I was making sure that the ones that got through were removed from the Archives. Even though I was telling people to not click onto anything, some of them apparently were, and they seemed to have kept setting another round of spam off. So that was when I realized, that it had to be controlled, and I did put everybody on moderation for a couple of weeks so that at least that thing couldn't keep spreading to others. Even though it is no longer moderated, and RW has removed all of those addresses which had sent spam, this new round of spam is coming through non-subscribers, as I have said, which of course, can't get through, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were some of the same folks who had been unsubbed before because they may not have done anything about their computer. A lot of people who get hacked only just change their email addresses or get new ones and don't close or even try to fix their compromised accounts, not a very smart thing to do. Deloris From: JYoung6180@aol.com Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 9:00 PM To: del_williams@comcast.net ; listowners@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] Yahoo Spammers Deloris- Getting spam on a list due to compromised subscriber email accounts is not a good reason to moderate the entire list. Just put the addresses on moderation that the spam is coming from until the people can fix the problem. I don't believe there is any correlation between real list posts and spam being generated from those subscribers with compromised accounts. It seems as if all of the compromised accounts trigger spam at the same times...times when the entity controlling the spam choose to send a batch of it over and over again on a semi-regular basis. All addresses you have under moderation that send spam will just get stuck in pending requests...they only get one through before they are moderated. Joan In a message dated 3/10/2013 7:10:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, del_williams@comcast.net writes: But that same list had been receiving a lot of spam just before Christmas from members who were subscribed, where I constantly had to send the links to Archive Removal. It got so bad that I finally put the entire list on moderation for awhile. Apparently, many addresses had been compromised and whenever anyone posted a real message, we'd get bombarded with spam from the hacked accounts.