It isn't new. I get many copies of the global unsub notices from listmaster when someone on one of my lists is responsible for spamming a number of lists (because of a compromised account). I have mixed feelings about this approach. I appreciate the fact that the listmaster is very attentive to these matters but on a couple occasions this approach has backfired when the person with the compromised email account has simply used the list of lists the listmaster sent him to REsubscribe to all the lists without fixing the problem! Since I had placed the address on moderation no further spam was hitting the lists until the person was unsubbed and resubbed. This undid my moderation and new spam hit the list again until I moderated again. :) Joan In a message dated 1/31/2012 5:37:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, charani.b@gmail.com writes: Carl Hommel wrote: > This has nothing to do with previous post. > Last week a subscriber to one of my Lists posted a message to the List which > my personal filter said was "a threat". I immediately put the subscriber on > mod, and told my List not to open it. Then I commenced the archive removal > scheme, which worked OK. I received a confirmation in a few hours, and the > message is gone from the archives. > Now the funny thing, which I have never heard of before. Today I received a > copy of an E-Mail Message from Listmaster at Rootsweb, addressed to the > spammer, [...] He went on > to say that he was deleting the spammer from ALL his subscribed Lists, and > then listed them all, and it was quite a long list! And I received E-Mail > that the spammer was deleted from my List. > Is this something new? I quite approve. New one on me as well. It's possible the mail advising a list member they'd been globally unsubbed isn't new, just the advisory to list admins. I don't agree with that nor the listing of the lists to all admins. I've had mails saying the matter had been dealt with. I think that's sufficient really. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/ ------------------------------- 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