AOL users were by far, the majority of the SPAM that I saw last week. They hit not only my lists, but just about all of the additional 50 or so lists I'm subbed to. What I'd like to know, isn't there some way that RW can prevent messages with "No Subject" hitting the lists? In my own email client, I have set such messages to go to my junk mail folder, so I don't see why it would be so difficult to set the RW filters for something similar. Deloris Williams -------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Hommel" <chommel6@comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:52 PM To: "W David Samuelsen" <dsam52@sampubco.com> Cc: <listowners@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [LO] Preventing Spam on Lists > The one I had and the one I received from another List were both AOL. My > List was Bausch, and the one I saw went to Wells (to which I subscribe), > with a copy to Wright, so they went from B to W in three days. > Carl Hommel > > -----Original Message----- > From: W David Samuelsen > Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 8:31 PM > Cc: listowners@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LO] Preventing Spam on Lists > > I haven't seen a single Yahoo hacked arriving for my attention, let > alone other lists. > > David S. > > On 7/15/2012 5:13 PM, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: >> David- >> >> The latest round of hacked emails was Yahoo...although AOL has had the >> problem in the past. This time it was Yahoo. Almost always it seems to be >> Web >> based accounts that get hacked. >> >> Joan >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Not all subscribers realize the need for putting a subject line. I have quite often in my years of subbing to lists and adminning lists had tons of messages with no subject lines that were legit messages, so if they all went to the great cyber space then it might be legit messages going elsewhere also. I have everything set so that everything FROM ROOTSWEB comes to me UNLESS Earthlink actually finds a virus and then it notifies me that it did not send the offending message. I still have the option of checking it if I choose, which I usually do not. This is me and how I admin my lists...every one is different in their admin styles, I just prefer knowing what is coming from RW and I get very little spam hitting my inbox. Lainee -----Original Message----- From: Deloris Williams Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 11:40 AM Cc: listowners@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] Preventing Spam on Lists AOL users were by far, the majority of the SPAM that I saw last week. They hit not only my lists, but just about all of the additional 50 or so lists I'm subbed to. What I'd like to know, isn't there some way that RW can prevent messages with "No Subject" hitting the lists? In my own email client, I have set such messages to go to my junk mail folder, so I don't see why it would be so difficult to set the RW filters for something similar. Deloris Williams