You are on the wrong list! This is for genealogy! S. Michelle Essers has invited you to Jhoos > Hi, > I have just joined the Jhoos Dating network. I wish to invite you to Jhoos as well. > Jhoos is a Dating Network with chat facilities that would let you search for members across the globe and chat with them instantly. > See you at Jhoos >

It would appear that Michelle's computer has picked up a virus and has sent emails to the addresses in her address book. I have seen this happen on other genealogy mailing lists that I belong to and it was never an intentional spamming by the list member. Jacquie Winnipeg, MB Canada -----Original Message----- From: sct-edinburgh-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-edinburgh-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Frank and Sheila Sent: January 25, 2009 7:57 AM To: sct-edinburgh@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] Michelle Essers has invited you to Jhoos You are on the wrong list! This is for genealogy! S. Michelle Essers has invited you to Jhoos > Hi, > I have just joined the Jhoos Dating network. I wish to invite you to Jhoos as well. > Jhoos is a Dating Network with chat facilities that would let you search for members across the globe and chat with them instantly. > See you at Jhoos >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacquie" Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] Michelle Essers has invited you to Jhoos > It would appear that Michelle's computer has picked up a virus and has > sent emails to the addresses > in her address book. I have seen this happen on other genealogy mailing > lists that I belong to and > it was never an intentional spamming by the list member. No she has not 'picked up a virus'. Please read the item below, which was posted on several lists I belong to, after the same message was sent to each of them, with Michelle's name attached as 'sender'. We each should heed the message, paying particular attention to the last sentence. Toni ~ Ontario **************************************************** **Please - Not for List discussion - Please** For the second time one of these invites has come to the [List Name] (and a number of other online forums too). What happens is that a person joins this particular J'hoos site which is a social networking site. If they don't read the joining instructions carefully, they unwittingly give consent for the site to contact everyone in their address book with an invite - an hey presto. Anyone joining such a networking site really does need to make absolutely sure they avoid this - I'm told the instructions don't make it at all clear. The only watertight way to be sure of avoiding such messages on our Mailing Lists is for a List Admin to permanently moderate the List. This would mean you'd only get messages when the List Admin has the time to sit and go through all the messages individually and either agree each one, or reject it. There are already very good safeguards in place to stop normal junk mailings and so I have no wish to stop folk corresponding freely - but sadly I will have to do so if this happens again. In fact these invite messages are harmless albeit very annoying indeed - best to delete unopened and ignore them.