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From: "David E. Cann" <>
Subject: RE: [BRADFORD-L] spam coming to the lists
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:22:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20040121162437.44647.qmail@web12202.mail.yahoo.com>


Fellow Bradford researchers,

Just a short "P. S." to Erin's note, if I may. I am a subscriber to this
list, but also Board Admin of the Bradford Message Board from which board
posts come to this list. I agree with what Erin says about the value of the
gateway, particularly for those of you who do not use the boards very much,
but one "down" side of the gateway is that sometimes things do get through
that should not. RootsWeb does an excellent job of removing posts from the
boards almost immediately when something inappropriate is discovered, but
unfortunately this does not stop the immediate posting to the lists.

I am list and board admin of a few others, and Bradford is one of the few
cases where I do not admin both sides, and in all cases I have the gateway
open because of the overall value of doing so. The "positives," in my
opinion, far outweigh the "negatives," as Erin has said. Actually, though,
Bradford was not the only list and board hit by this particular spammer, as
he hit well over a hundred of them, and in all cases the post on the board
was removed within minutes.

I do not want to take up any more list space, but if anyone wishes to
discuss it off the list, I would welcome hearing from you. The spam,
unfortunately, is one cost of making free list and board space available for
genealogy purposes accessible to the greatest number of people possible.

David E. Cann

Bradford Message Board Admin

-----Original Message-----
From: Erin Bradford [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:25 AM
To:
Subject: [BRADFORD-L] spam coming to the lists


Hi all. As you know, the message boards for these surnames on ancestry.com
are
gatewayed to the lists. I want to keep them that way because it provides
more
opportunity to connect with a cousin; however, the downside is that when
"spam"
is posted to the message boards, they are automatically sent to the lists.
Lately, there has been a string of these to be posted. Only the Bradford
and
Eller list has been affected so far, but for future reference, anything
gatewayed from the message boards to the list that refers to getting out of
print books from astrologos.com, just ignore it. Those messages are
automatically deleted from the message boards when they are posted, but
still
come to the lists and there is nothing I can do about that unless I don't
allow
gatewaying. I am a librarian, so if anyone needs help locating out of print
books for inter-library loan, please feel free to email me with as much info
on
the books that you have as possible. Don't be afraid to look on ebay or
with
amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com for out of print books as well as they have
used bookstores and other resources. Thanks.

Erin
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