Patrice- I can't answer that...I think you would have to ask the staff on the HelpDesk. I know that even the RootsWeb staff email addresses get spam like that -- so there is no apparent filtering done other than for mail directed to the lists -- filtered by the list software. Joan In a message dated 3/17/2012 10:50:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, genealogy@cfl.rr.com writes: Joan, I know we can't change that here, but is it something that should be changed? Why should admins get stuff that even RootsWeb doesn't want? It could also be a safety issue. What was the thinking behind the decision. Do you know? Subjects can be deceptive or non-existent and as has been discussed here repeatedly, you can't judge a sender by their email address. I use Mailwasher and can preview emails without the images, so it's not an issue for me. But it could be for other List Admins. Rel@ively, Patrice

Hi Joan, Having thought long on this, I don't think there is anything Rootsweb can do because AVG, Windows and Google let this porn picture come through as well. I think the only solution that can work is for the admin to have an e-mail addy published on the general Information page, so that mail comes directly to the admin without Rootsweb being involved. That way we can mark the spam and porn as spam to our own e-mail service. Google is very good then to redirect it to the spam box after just a few messages. In this case, Rootsweb appears to hinder dealing with spam to admin. We need to get Rootsweb out of the way so we can deal with it.. Janet On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:16 PM, <JYoung6180@aol.com> wrote: > Patrice- > > I can't answer that...I think you would have to ask the staff on the > HelpDesk. > > I know that even the RootsWeb staff email addresses get spam like that -- > so there is no apparent filtering done other than for mail directed to the > lists  -- filtered by the list software. > > Joan > > > In a message dated 3/17/2012 10:50:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > genealogy@cfl.rr.com writes: > > Joan, > > I know we can't change that here, but is it something that  should be > changed?  Why should admins get stuff that even RootsWeb  doesn't > want?  It could also be a safety issue.  What was the  thinking behind > the decision.  Do you know? > > Subjects can be  deceptive or non-existent and as has been discussed > here repeatedly, you  can't judge a sender by their email address.  I > use Mailwasher and  can preview emails without the images, so it's not > an issue for me.   But it could be for other List  Admins. > > Rel@ively, > Patrice > > > > ------------------------------- > 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