Pat- WHERE are you getting all this spam? Do you mean spam is hitting your LIST or coming to you as admin? Or is it going to your pending requests? If it is in pending requests just delete it -- or you can set pending requests to discard non-subscriber messages and you will never see it. Spam sent to you as admin just delete but it is getting through to your list that has to be dealt with and deleted from the archives. Joan In a message dated 2/25/2012 12:03:28 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, patcreel@cableone.net writes: Hello, I am brand new to list. Is there a way that rootsweb can manage all the spam that goes to mailing lists? Can they filter the spam? thanks. regards, Pat