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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: gatewayed messages from the message boards and spam
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:23:56 -0700 (PDT)

Hi all. It was just brought to my attention by a list member that some of the
email that is gatewayed from the message boards were from addresses that don't
exist. Unfortunately, I haven't been watching the lists close enough and those
messages slipped past me. It's not that the addresses from the senders don't
work, it's that the messages were actually spam. Because messages posted on
the message boards are automatically gatewayed the the corresponding lists,
there is nothing I can do about them.

These spam messages are usually detected by the message board moderator and
then deleted, but by that time, they've already come through on the lists. My
suggestion is that if you see a message that you are interested in that has
been gatewayed, click on the link that takes you directly to the message board.
If a screen comes up with the message, you can be pretty sure it's
legitimiate, however if a screen comes up saying the message doesn't exist, it
was most likely spam that was deleted. A word of caution, a lot of these
messages that are really spam have a link inside the message that takes you to
another site (such as ebay, etc.).

For most of the lists I moderate, it's not really a problem, maybe only a dozen
messages a so a year are gatewayed, but for the Black, Barringer, and Bradford
lists, the majority of messages seem to be gatewayed. I believe these
gatewayed messages are valuable to the list members as a whole, there are just
a few bad seeds, but unfortunately there is nothing I can do about the bad
seeds.

Good luck all with your research.

Erin


Erin Bradford

List manager
http://www.ncalhn.org
ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties
http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

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