Makes an interesting circle. To bad the culprits who start this crap cant loose a few fingers. To bad it cant be traced and special troops go there and clean house no matter where in the world it was created. Okk lol ya I see every ones point. But mod stops those post and then removing them will stop future contamination but as for the current post was already delivered and for those people unsmart you dont open un anouced pic or link had already opened it. Damage done. So now we have those people to deal with. Mod vs unsub is great in stopping future posts but that poor person who has not learned the (donts) is already trapped. Would maybe be possible to make a global filter for those links? some links I have folders for. Thats how I catch a lot...I made a folder for a copy of all messages with php links I get to preview those. Some php links are safe like my photo pages and lots of others but in any case the overbearing copies are spam. I go and mod them. How ever as you mentioned some list admins dont. So I guess Its better to remove because he dont know who might have used mod any way. Guess I was on a one way thought when I posted. On Feb 1, 2012 7:39 AM, <JYoung6180@aol.com> wrote: > ** > 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. > >