I checked and every list I admin is already set to "Discard" and I still get those annoying requests to -admin addresses David On 7/29/2012 9:17 PM, Mary D. Taffet wrote: > David, > > It's there, but not in an obvious place: > > Privacy Options > Accept List > Action to take for postings from > non-members for which no explicit action is defined > > The choices are either "Hold" -- the default, and "Discard". When set > to "Hold", we get pending requests for these items. When set to > "Discard", we don't get pending requests for these items -- they just > disappear in the ether. > > You just have to remember that this option doesn't play well with > putting the gateway on the Ban list. > > -- Mary

David, This has NOTHING to do with mail going to -admin addresses; only with pending requests. As the original discussion has pointed out, there is at this point NOTHING we can do to keep from getting junk sent to the -admin addresses. That's unfortunate because, more and more often, I'm getting items that Norton/Symantec quarantines as viruses, trojans, and other forms of malware that are sent as attachments to messages addressed to the -admin addresses. You could of course set a rule/filter on your e-mail program to send any messages that come to your -admin addresses to a junk folder or trash, but that could potentially mean missing a few legitimate messages here and there. I know I've written legitimate messages to -admin addresses for lists I don't admin before; not often, but I have done it. -- Mary On 7/29/2012 11:55 PM, W David Samuelsen wrote: > I checked and every list I admin is already set to "Discard" > > and I still get those annoying requests to -admin addresses > > David > > On 7/29/2012 9:17 PM, Mary D. Taffet wrote: >> David, >> >> It's there, but not in an obvious place: >> >> Privacy Options > Accept List > Action to take for postings from >> non-members for which no explicit action is defined >> >> The choices are either "Hold" -- the default, and "Discard". When set >> to "Hold", we get pending requests for these items. When set to >> "Discard", we don't get pending requests for these items -- they just >> disappear in the ether. >> >> You just have to remember that this option doesn't play well with >> putting the gateway on the Ban list. >> >> -- Mary > >

On 7/29/2012 23:55, W David Samuelsen wrote: > I checked and every list I admin is already set to "Discard" > > and I still get those annoying requests to -admin addresses > > David Well, yes. There is NO option - nor should there be - to "discard all mail to list admin." If that's what you want to do, then that's a pretty fair indication that you've burned out and it's time to put them all up for adoption. There is a certain amount of administrivia....and a certain amount of the administrivia is crap, admittedly....to being a list admin. There's a reason admin mail isn't spamfiltered: because every once in a while there's legitimate mail from a legitimate subscriber, or wants-to-subscribe-er, that gets trapped in spam filters. And RootsWeb doesn't want to lose that correspondence. Nor should you, if you're truly adminning the list. If it's just too much to deal with, the solution is simple: put your list up for adoption. There is nothing keeping you from being just as active as ever on the list, doing just as much genealogy as ever on the list, even leading discussions on the list, without being the admin. If you choose to keep the list, then the correct response is to "cowboy up" (or "cowgirl up"), admit that a small percentage of the work is distasteful but that you still want the job anyway, kwitcherbitchin and admin the list. It is what it is - which is what it ALWAYS has been. Bitching about it just sours other peoples' moods without solving any problems on your end. So in the words of the immortal Yoda.... Do or do not. But whatever your choice, don't whine about it on this list. :) --pig, admin