I've heard that all the web-based free email providers have been recycling unused, abandoned and little-used email accounts, and that many of these have been adopted by spammers. This has caused special-interest mailing list providers, RootsWeb among them, big problems. Those of us who run mailing lists usually do have to clear spam out of the RootsWeb "holding pen" for our lists on a daily basis, but it seems to me as though there's always more and more spam to reject. Gets real old, doing it. Anyway, I suspect from things I've heard from other list admins that this is at least one big reason for the rifts between RootsWeb and Yahoo, Hotmail, Google, AOL, etc. Doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it as list admins or subscribers, unfortunately. Frank's probably got the best solution: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Judy