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From: "Karima" <>
Subject: [MOROCCO] IMPORTANT from your List Administrator
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:04:03 -0500

Dear List Members,

The message below was written by a fellow list administrator who has
graciously given me permission to post it to the lists I administer. I
could not have explained it better than he has, and I am sending this to you
because it is extremely important that you have this information.

PLEASE, do not think that this is a subject for discussion on the list - it
is not.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Karima
List Administrator

Greetings:

** DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT GOES TO THE LIST **

There are two things going on regarding our list that I want you to know
about. However, and this is important, this IS *NOT* AN INVITATION TO
DISCUSS THESE ISSUES *ON* THE LIST. Failure to abide by this restriction
may result in a stay in the Reject File for the list, which I hate doing to
subscribers -- it's a pain, and easily avoided. The list is for genealogy.
Please send me a *private* e-mail if you have questions or concerns.

** VIRUS ALERTS AND DISCUSSIONS ARE FORBIDDEN ON MY LISTS **
Try

First, there are two nasty and confusing viruses/malicious
programs/whatevers making the rounds. If you have not updated your
anti-virus software in October -- STOP -- DO IT NOW -- I'll still be here
when you get back.

The problem with these two bugs is that they are quite good at making it
LOOK like a message came from a RootsWeb list. Be advised that _NO_ RootsWeb
list can transmit a virus.

Also, _NO_ RootsWeb list can transmit *any* kind of an attached file
(although some e-mail clients display list Digests "as though" they were
attached files -- they aren't). Lastly, the size of these infected messages
runs over 50kb. I do not permit messages that large for any of my lists, so
on many counts, if you get an infected message, it did not come through a
RootsWeb mailing list.

Another thing is that at least one of these products of idiocy tells you
lies, about where the message is coming from and what it is about, so you
cannot even say for sure that a list member is infected, either! For
example, if John Doe gets an infected message that looks like Jane Roe
posted it to the MOE-L list; not only did it not get on the MOE-L list,
Jane didn't post it. Rather, Joe Bloe is an irresponsible person who
disdains the use of anti-virus software. He has messages from the list
(which may be copies taken from the archives, or may have been forwarded to
him by someone else), messages from John, and messages from Jane, on his
computer. The virus picks and chooses addresses and subject lines and then
lies, lies, lies about them.

** REMEMBER, DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOUR REPLY
GOES TO THE LIST **

Secondly (and if you are not subscribed to MSN or Hotmail the rest of this
message does not apply to you), a lot of RootsWeb messages are being
bounced by MSN and/or Hotmail for reasons that puzzle the RW techs no end,
not to mention legions of list admins. If you are being involuntarily
unsubscribed from the list time after time, and you are an MSN or Hotmail
user, may I suggest that you switch to some other provider? If this is not
practical, then contact me *PRIVATELY* for some things to try -- but they
don't work for some people, unfortunately.

I apologize for the necessity of making these announcements. And now, back
to dead ancestors.

Darrell

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