Just because a RootsWeb list has no administrator doesn't mean the list serves no purpose. RootsWeb doesn't shut lists down but does make unadminned lists adoptable. Perhaps you would like to adopt the list and care for it? If you mean why didn't the spam get blocked and not come through to the list, that is generally the result of a subscriber to the list whose email account has become compromised by a hacker. Non subscribers wouldn't be able to send spam to the RootsWeb lists which are "closed" to non-subscribers. If you contact the RootsWeb HelpDesk about the spam you got via the list they will take care of removing it from the list archives. So just delete the spam and forget it after you have let the HelpDesk know. Joan In a message dated 5/3/2012 4:59:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, knoxcone@yahoo.com writes: How many of the Rootsweb mailing lists go unmonitored any more and should be shut down. The Tombstone list just had a pharmaceutical message come though. The previous message was 11 Jul 2009. That is probably one that should be closed. There are a lot of others. Posts could be made to this list and maybe revive it a bit. TR

Tom, I started that list and it was hugely subscribed to and I ran it for the first couple years and had alot of bickering on it with the pros and cons of cleaning tombstones that I finally turned it over to a new admin. I do not think any of the lists should be closed. The time they start doing that someone WILL come along and want a new list for the same topic. It will serve a purpose to some at one point or another. On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:36 AM, <JYoung6180@aol.com> wrote: > Just because a RootsWeb list has no administrator doesn't mean the list > serves no purpose. RootsWeb doesn't shut lists down but does make unadminned > lists adoptable. Perhaps you would like to adopt the list and care for it? > > If you mean why didn't the spam get blocked and not come through to the > list, that is generally the result of a subscriber to the list whose email > account has become compromised by a hacker. Non subscribers wouldn't be able > to  send spam to the RootsWeb lists which are "closed" to non-subscribers. > If  you contact the RootsWeb HelpDesk about the spam you got via the list > they will  take care of removing it from the list archives. So just delete the > spam and  forget it after you have let the HelpDesk know. > > Joan > > > In a message dated 5/3/2012 4:59:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > knoxcone@yahoo.com writes: > > How many  of the Rootsweb mailing lists go unmonitored any > more and should be shut  down. > > > > The Tombstone > list just had a pharmaceutical  message come though. The previous message > was 11 > Jul 2009. That is probably  one that should be closed. There are a lot of > others. Posts could be made  to this list and maybe revive it a  bit. > > > > TR -- ~~~~~ Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nelancas/