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

I did that, too, and haven't had a single spam message since. Vicki Rob Yoder wrote: 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 - [1]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" [2]<wandaq@satx.rr.com> Subject: [TXGEN] How do you give up a mailing list. To: [3]<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 [4]TXGEN-request@rootsweb .com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txtarran/ 2. mailto:wandaq@satx.rr.com 3. mailto:txgen@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com

Thanks, I was wondering if there was a place to do that. I had looked but didn't see that and if I did I probably was worried that it would discard all postings. I know there is a place to shut the list down for cooling off purposes but I was afraid I would get busy and forget I had done that. :-) I wish they would hurry up and fix the server because its been down for me today. I tried to upload some files and got the "Socket Error" message. Wanda 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 >