To my knowledge, Marilyn, the Archive Removal Tool, is the only way but the powers that be at Rootsweb will review the posting and delete it is spam and then remove it. They might also remove the "spammer" from the member list of ALL email lists thereby preventing more spam from coming through from that same poster. For the spam to have hit the archives, the poster has to be a member of the list so have RW remove it via the Archive Removal Tool is a good thing. Lainee -----Original Message----- From: M Nickless Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:52 AM To: Listowners@rootsweb.com Subject: [LO] Help on removing a message from the Archives While looking at my list archives this morning to see if a suspected spam message from a subscriber went into the archives, I noticed that another ‘Spam” email made it through the list the other day. I have already completely deleted that the email from my own mailbox/spam box/deleted messages files, so can’t forward it with all headers/footers to the Help Desk. Can anyone tell me if there is another way to remove that message? Obviously I don’t want to use the Archive Removal Tool as it will trigger a message to the spammer! Thanks, Marilyn