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From: "David E. Cann" <>
Subject: [Maryland] An explanation
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:11:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <31763.1034106229@www38.gmx.net>

Denise,

Good question, and I apologize for not mentioning it on the list when it
first happened, but to be honest with you, I figured once on the list is
enough.

For your information and that of everyone else, someone spammed not only the
Maryland message board (not the list) yesterday, but a lot of others, mostly
other state boards and larger county boards. I reported it to abuse as soon
as I saw it, and it was stopped. Unfortunately, once a message is posted to
a board that is gatewayed to the list, the message is posted immediately to
the list itself and cannot be stopped afterwards.

In this case, the message was removed from the Maryland board by the Admin
(I Admin only the list, not the board), and RootsWeb and/or the Admins
removed it from all of the other boards it was posted on and the individual
was put on "Global Reject."

I apologize to everyone for it, but you have just experienced one of the
drawbacks of gatewaying from the message board to the list. I still believe
in doing it this way, as 99.9% of the time it is very beneficial to the
list, but the other 0.1% it what causes the problem.

I hope this answers your question. If you or anyone else would like to talk
about it, please feel free to contact me privately, but please let's keep
any further discussion of spam off the list.

David E. Cann

Administrator of the Maryland
mailing list on RootsWeb


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:44 PM
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Subject: [Maryland] Try this.... it works$$$... This systems works....


How does junk like this get onto our message list? Is there any way to stop
it? To the sender: what does this have to do with genealogy? Please
spread your greed somewhere else.
Denise

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