Hi Karen, This looks more like playing into the hands of spammers Right now I could be a spammer by addressing this as I did and have a virus, malware or what ever else a spammer might conceal and let it loose as soon as someone opens the mail. At least when an email arrives with a name that I have not seen before and the topic looks suspicious, I can delete it without opening. The new way, every email will be addressed alike for each list and no one will know who the spammer is who sent it until after we infected. I am coming to believe that shut down of rootsweb a week ago, was to set this up and I also believe it was to discourage all of us and force us to go Ancestry and pay for it. I do hope I am wrong but I just don't trust the evil people who are lurking in the background of all internet activities. Just my thoughts about it.:} All the best Barbara in MA [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:18:35 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Heads Up ... Some changes coming in how to respond to ROOTS-L messages Morning, all! I'm not sure if the changes have arrived for this list, or quite what they'll look like (don't have any messages in my inbox from the list this morning), but ... due to changes that ISPs have been implementing to reduce spam, it has become important that messages FROM RootsWeb say they're from RootsWeb, rather than from the person who sent the message to the mailing list. So if all the messages are "From: [email protected]", then how are you to tell which are from me ([email protected]) and which are from someone else, etc.? I don't know ... perhaps the original sender will be in the Reply-To line, or in the Sender line, or elsewhere ... or nowhere! We'll have to watch and see. Meanwhile, let me recommend two good habits to use in general, but especially here and now. ;-) 1. When you hit "reply" ... check to see WHO you're replying to and if that's who you had in mind. (For the who/whom crowd, what I just wrote makes me wince but I'm gonna let it be.) 2. Include who you are and your e-mail address at the end of your message (and whack off ANYTHING else ... it's a mailing list, everyone saw the earlier message, you just annoy the people in digest mode by endlessly repeating it). Thus: Karen [email protected] ROOTS-L Administrative Team ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to [email protected] and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Barbara in MA, Who are the "evil people?" The mailing lists use the plain text format to prevent viruses from being sent to list, because you cannot make attachments to the mail. Rootsweb wasn't shut down by choice it was the victim of a DDoS attack. The new changes to the mailing list has to do with the number of subscribers who were bouncing off because new changes to the way ISP's and other email clients handle mail to cut down on spam. There is nothing nefarious going on here. It's just keeping up with email changes. Sincerely, J. Asche On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 4:59 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Karen, > > This looks more like playing into the hands of spammers Right now I could be a spammer by addressing this as I did and have a virus, malware or what ever else a spammer might conceal and let it loose as soon as someone opens the mail. At least when an email arrives with a name that I have not seen before and the topic looks suspicious, I can delete it without opening. The new way, every email will be addressed alike for each list and no one will know who the spammer is who sent it until after we infected. > > I am coming to believe that shut down of rootsweb a week ago, was to set this up and I also believe it was to discourage all of us and force us to go Ancestry and pay for it. > > I do hope I am wrong but I just don't trust the evil people who are lurking in the background of all internet activities. > > Just my thoughts about it.:} > > All the best > Barbara in MA > [email protected] >

Hi Barbara No, to be a spammer and post to the list you have to join the list and be vetted and accepted by admin Secondly Rootsweb do not accept either HTML or attachments the way that virus & trojans are spread The only way you could be infected via a list is to click on a link in a list post, clearly you wouldn't do that with an unsolicited url from an unknown source And if you have a good anti virus it should pick that up anyway (not that I would suggest anyone test that) So no you are in no more danger now than you were before Think positive Barbara :-) So far since the change, I have had no AOL or Yahoo mails in spam at all As to the conspiracy theory, I think you have been reading to many spy thrillers <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 13/07/2014 21:59, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Karen, > > This looks more like playing into the hands of spammers Right now I > could be a spammer by addressing this as I did and have a virus, > malware or what ever else a spammer might conceal and let it loose as > soon as someone opens the mail. At least when an email arrives with > a name that I have not seen before and the topic looks suspicious, I > can delete it without opening. The new way, every email will be > addressed alike for each list and no one will know who the spammer is > who sent it until after we infected. > > I am coming to believe that shut down of rootsweb a week ago, was to > set this up and I also believe it was to discourage all of us and > force us to go Ancestry and pay for it. > > I do hope I am wrong but I just don't trust the evil people who are > lurking in the background of all internet activities. > > Just my thoughts about it.:} > > All the best Barbara in MA [email protected]