Diana- This can depend on her email provider and how they handle blocked mail. If they just discard it it won't do any harm. Mostly though, the blocked mail would come back as bounces and when this happens for 5 days total she would be unsubbed for bounces...so it isn't a good idea to suggest this. Perhaps a better solution would be to suggest she complain to his ISP about him being abusive to her if that is the case. Joan In a message dated 3/6/2012 12:45:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, DianaGM@dgmweb.net writes: I have a member who is being annoyed offlist by another subscriber. I told her there is nothing we can do about it (he is not mis-behaving on the list). I was going to suggest she blacklist him in her email client, but will that have the effect that his list messages will then bounce back to me, as listadmin? Diana

Thanks, Joan, I thought that might be what would happen. And, yes, I will suggest she complain to his ISP. In my experience, the best thing to do is ignore the message without responding. The abuser gets bored if they don't get a response. That's unwelcome advice to someone who's upset, of course. Diana From: JYoung6180@aol.com [mailto:JYoung6180@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 12:48 AM To: DianaGM@dgmweb.net; Listowners-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] blacklisting Diana- This can depend on her email provider and how they handle blocked mail. If they just discard it it won't do any harm. Mostly though, the blocked mail would come back as bounces and when this happens for 5 days total she would be unsubbed for bounces...so it isn't a good idea to suggest this. Perhaps a better solution would be to suggest she complain to his ISP about him being abusive to her if that is the case. Joan In a message dated 3/6/2012 12:45:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, DianaGM@dgmweb.net writes: I have a member who is being annoyed offlist by another subscriber. I told her there is nothing we can do about it (he is not mis-behaving on the list). I was going to suggest she blacklist him in her email client, but will that have the effect that his list messages will then bounce back to me, as listadmin? Diana