I just tried this after having looked at the 'RootsWeb List Administration Resources' page where I find the following links to be inactive (no URL): Mailing List Archives Searching in the Mailing List Archives (NO URL) Removal of Archived Messages (NO URL) And I just tried your procedure listed below. It sent the confirmation to the Sender Address on the original message. That is hardly any help as it will only confuse the sender (who just happens to be the assistant admin and whose address had been filched). I still need an address to which to send the URL's that I, The Admin, want to have removed. Thank You, Brad Miter >>Message: 6 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:52:35 -0400 From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <DianaGM@dgmweb.net> Subject: Re: [LO] Mailing list To: <LISTOWNERS@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004301cd5c47$c37858d0$4a690a70$@dgmweb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Go to your list archive and pick up the URL to the message, then enter it on this page: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/remove Diana > From: Sonny O'Haver > Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 9:18 AM > > Can someone tell me how to delete a post in the archives. One > members email sent spam (they did not know it did). I would like to > delete it out of the archives<< ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 07:03:40 -0700 From: "Dan JM" <mygenrw2@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LO] Confirmation of removal request ignored To: <listowners@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <E141AE7E379B470D80F33C3A6A387C9A@AroundHome> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original For a more universal answer, use hotmail hijack in google or yahoo and you will get many hits on problems with ( hot mail ). Looks like some other mail would be better to change to since this is such a wide spread disease. I have had a few members using HotMail and had to get gmail just to write to me about being hi jacked and could not access their account. So far since the conception of G mail and using OE for pop, I have been lucky I guess. But I know what Nelda posted is not uncommon. Its hair raising to say the least. As for saving any thing on the web in mail accounts, those messages could be pop to your PC and saved in the HD as well as leaving a copy on the server, thats what I do with G mail. Its saved to my external HD in a folder store off the C drive and not in the OE environment, you can do this simple enough with thunderbird or what ever. Dan M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Zurawicz" <listpig@earthlink.net> To: <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [LO] Confirmation of removal request ignored > On 7/6/2012 17:26, Nelda Percival wrote: >> >> Mary, >> On changing the password, you can't as they already have changed your >> password, the password question and answer..and the contact data. >> >> You see I was hi-jacked .. I had to have tech support delete the the new >> question they had submitted, disconnect the mobile contact to their cell >> number and the Question / answers, we did this five times before the >> hi-jackers gave up. In the mean time, they discarded my entire contact >> list, my folders of old messages from 10years of keeping them.. and all >> the important data I had stored in my "Paid for HOT MAIL ACCOUNT". >> >> Your message never gets to the member, because the email account forwards >> to the hi-jackers...not the member, the hijackers read the messages you >> send out. >> ...I KNOW.. BEEN THERE DONE THAT...Nelda > > Nelda: this does not seem to be a universal truth; Gerhard and I have > also seen cases where the subscriber (after a global unsub due to hacked > email account) got all the unsub notices. So a more universal answer > may be that it's worth sending the email (after moderating and/or > unsubbing the address), but be aware that the subscriber MAY or MAY NOT > see what you send. > > --pig > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:29:41 -0400 From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <DianaGM@dgmweb.net> Subject: Re: [LO] Confirmation of removal request ignored To: <Listowners-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004f01cd5c4c$f27583b0$d7608b10$@dgmweb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" P.S. The onslaught of email address hijacking is a lesson to all of us to create stronger passwords. Google on the topic to learn how. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:57:25 -0500 From: Nelda Percival <nelda_percival@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [LO] Confirmation of removal request ignored To: <listowners-l@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <COL116-W430497DA2FFA22AE795E26E4ED0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Diana is right! Good Strong Passwords! My sister had given her data to a we-gonna close your account email and DUMB me I used her name as my password. They had my account in minutes. Use upper /lower case letters, symbols and numbers.. never make a word, or saying..... NEVER use the same password on more then one account. I now keep a little black book with all my different passwords and change the password often.... I don't use OE, I go online to my account and read the email there, I do not store emails on my computer ....Free Hotmail has NO tech support... Paid for Hotmail accounts do... Back to original message... Do something to stop the SPAM... at least moderate immediately... Nelda > From: DianaGM@dgmweb.net > To: > Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:29:41 -0400 > Subject: Re: [LO] Confirmation of removal request ignored > > P.S. The onslaught of email address hijacking is a lesson to all of > us to create stronger passwords. Google on the topic to learn how. > Duct tape is like 'The Force'. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ~~~~~~~~ My Genealogy: http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/index.htm GeneticGenealogy: http://www.geneticsand.us Gilpin Worldwide Project: http://www.gilpingenetics.us My Business: http://www.aircastles-internet-marketing.biz With lists to the blogs. ------------------------------ To contact the LISTOWNERS list administrator, send an email to LISTOWNERS-admin@rootsweb.com. 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send the URLs to the helpdesk-post@rootsweb.com identify SPAM & list ask them to finish the removal.