Rob, I did what you said and so far I haven't gotten anything from the lists to delete. THANKS! Wanda Qualls Matthew 5 - 7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Yoder" <rgyoder@juno.com> To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] How do you give up a mailing list. > Wanda, > > Don't give them up. Do what I did. > > Go to "Privacy Option", then "Accept List", and finally check the > "Discard" > button under "Action to take for postings...." > > That will automatically dump the spam instead of bothering you with it. > Sure some legitimate non-subscriber posts will be lost, but at least you > keep your mailing lists. Occasionally a real subscriber's post will end > up > here if it's too large or too many recipients, but these "will" be held > for > your approval. > > I sleep much better now. > > Rob Yoder > > Tarrant County TXGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txtarran/ > TXTARRAN Mailing List Administrator > TXELLIS Mailing List Administrator > TX-FWGS Mailing List Administrator > >> Message: 5 >> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:11:39 -0500 >> From: "Wanda Qualls" <wandaq@satx.rr.com> >> Subject: [TXGEN] How do you give up a mailing list. >> To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <4002D6F5BB3742B785D5179A71775A6F@WandaQuallsPC> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Does anyone how to give up a mailing list. A few of the mailing lists I >> have are being hit by spammers and I just have the time to go in and >> delete all of them. I had 57 on one mailing list today. Enough is >> enough. >> I have work to do on my counties and this is taking away time for that. >> Wanda Qualls > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >