Hello all, Rootsweb has been working recently on making the mailing lists that they sponser work better. They are blocking spam. I can testify to the fact that it works because when they catch was appears to be spam going to one of the lists, they forward it on to the list owner, just in case so that the listowner can decide what to do with it. As a list manager I have received 2 such mailings since the smart list started catching spam. It works. Now the lists will block messages in HTML, richtext, and attachments. This is to help out those who can't read those types of messages and there are many. (Folks with older systems, those on WebTv, and AOL has problems too.) I am pasting a message from Rootsweb about it at the end of this message. It's hot as South Carolina here. I'm staying inside. That means that I should get the new pages for the Clarendon County website finished today. I have been working on them since school let out. The new pages are a sort of picture album. Windy Corbett had sent me a couple of photos to post of unknown vets before and then she sent me some old photos from 1955 and an old Paxville school group photo. (She scans them and e-mails them to me.) I have some old photos of my own and some that folks have sent to me in the mail or just given to me. I decided to scan them too (new scanner here) and start a photo album. If you have any old pictures, I would love to add yours to the album. I would like to start one for Sumter and Lee Counties. All of these are Clarendon. There are a lot of my family, but hey that's what I have in my files here. Have fun researching. Cindy -----Original Message----- From: Tim Pierce >"Hi, folks -- > >Well, it took almost two months longer than expected, but we're >right now installing a SmartList hack that blocks file attachments >(including VCARDS), HTML messages and enriched text postings. >Sorry about the delay: things have been crazy around here. > >This note is to let you know how it works. When a poster sends >something to a mailing list written in HTML, or with a >non-plain-text attached file, the list server will send the >poster's message back to them, with a note at the bottom >explaining the plain-text requirement at RootsWeb. A COPY OF THIS >REJECTION MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO YOU AS WELL! That's because the >poster may write back to you to complain or to ask for help, and >it can be pretty confusing if they write a reply to a message that >you never saw"........... >>"This change is not currently something the listowner can turn on >and off. Attachments will be blocked from every list alike. This >might not be to the taste of some listowners, so we'll consider >closely whether it would be safe to make it an optional setting." > >"Thanks to Marc Nozell for finding the SmartList patch that was >used as the basis for this fix!" > >Regards, >Tim Pierce >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative >volunteer sysadmin and general hacker >