Hello Middlesex County Researchers, Due to a large amount of recent spam attacks (only one got through to this list, the others were blocked), Rootsweb has adopted a policy of "closing" their mailing lists to non-subscribers. This new policy will only affect those people that are not subscribed to the mailing list. From now on their posts will go to me instead of the list. At that point I will forward the appropriate ones and invite the person to subscribe to the list. The inappropriate ones will be deleted without notice. AGAIN, This Rootsweb policy (not mine) does not affect anyone that is able to read this. Below is a portion of the notice I received: ============================================================ This announcement is to let you know that we've just finished "closing" all of the RootsWeb lists. This means that the list server will only let you post to a mailing list if you subscribe to it. I'm sorry that this had to be done so hastily, but we didn't really have any choice. The volume of spam that was being sent through our lists had reached a phenomenal level, and I was spending most of my time on that problem rather than improving the systems. Worse, some users had begun to send spam complaints to sites that were completely unrelated to RootsWeb, but could kill our network connection if they received too many complaints. Closing the lists to subscribers became a matter of self-preservation. ========================================================== Please direct any questions on this matter to my personal email address and not to the list. Thank you for your cooperation. Glenn G. Geisheimer, Iselin, New Jersey: glenng@castle.net NJMiddle Mailing List Administrator Middlesex County, NJ Genealogy: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/ Middlesex County Query Forum: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NJ/Middlesex