<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I agree with everything Devin said below, but want to add one other thing: There is a spam-bot out there that is spamming people's inboxes appearing to come from an actual ansteorra list, when in fact it is not.</DIV>
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<DIV>For example: you could get a spam message from <A href="mailto:oem-sales@register.net">oem-sales@register.net</A>, and you could look at it and say--aha! that is spam!</DIV>
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<DIV>you could get a message from <A href="mailto:lists@ansteorra.org">lists@ansteorra.org</A> and say aha! that is legit! and if a hacker had hacked <A href="mailto:lists@ansteorra.org">lists@ansteorra.org</A>, the list admin could change a few things and the hacker would be blocked again.</DIV>
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<DIV>In this case, the spam from <A href="mailto:oem-sales@register.net">oem-sales@register.net</A> is masquerading itself as <A href="mailto:lists@ansteorra.org">lists@ansteorra.org</A>. The spammmer doesn't actually have any access to <A href="mailto:lists@ansteorra.org">lists@ansteorra.org</A>, he is just making it look like he does so that you don't see the email as spam. This distinction is important, because the list admin at <A href="mailto:lists@ansteorra.org">lists@ansteorra.org</A> doesn't have any power to stop this from happening.</DIV>
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<DIV>So, to reiterate: #1-these spam emails you are getting look like they are coming from an official list, but they are not. #2 there is nothing that anyone on the official lists can do to stop it that has not already been done.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lastly, remember that Dev and I really are deleting over a hundred spam a week. If anyone knows of someone who legitimately wants to join the list--and this may become an important issue come this weekend--please have them email one of the two list mods directly, or have someone on the list email the list directly, so that we mods can have a heads up and clear them. Once again, this is not a policy and is not required, it is just a way of making sure things work smoothly the first time.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cathal</DIV>
<DIV>the other list co-mod</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:silalmhain@yahoo.com">silalmhain@yahoo.com</A></DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:lddevin03@yahoo.com">lddevin03@yahoo.com</A></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG><BR><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 4/24/11, David Brown <I><lddevin03@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Just so everyone knows. There has been TONS of spam coming into the various list of Ansteorra. The problem is being worked on. Cathal and myself literally delete hundreds of spam mail weekly. Sometimes it gets through... please be patient and the problem will be fixed. In the meantime, if it looks fishy then delete it.<BR><BR>Lord Devin<BR>(List Mod #2)<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Sher M <runa.herd@earthlink.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Sdw Sdw <sdw_texas@yahoo.com>; ravensfort@ansteorra.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sun, April 24, 2011 7:39:57 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Ravensfort] Whats up with this??? Virus or Spam???<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=sdw_texas@yahoo.com href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sdw_texas@yahoo.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:sdw_texas@yahoo.com">Sdw Sdw</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ansteorra-pelicans-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ansteorra-pelicans-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:ansteorra-pelicans-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org">ansteorra-pelicans-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org</A> ; <A title=ravensfort@ansteorra.org href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ravensfort@ansteorra.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:ravensfort@ansteorra.org">ravensfort@ansteorra.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 24, 2011 6:28 PM</DIV>
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<DIV>Did someone get hacked? Is this one of those viruses going around OR is one list trying to post to another list? Maybe SPAM???</DIV>
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<DIV>Just checking ! ! ! </DIV>
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