[AMRadio] SPAM on AMRadio (Was Re: amradio at mailman.qth.net hi)

[W5AMI]

Those of you that have Yahoo email accounts, please be aware of this:

It seems Yahoo and a few other online email services are having
trouble again with people hacking into others email accounts and
sending SPAM.  The email below is an example of this that slipped
through and got posted to the list.  Since this is basically an
unmoderated list in regard to letting emails go through without
approval from the members, we don't catch these.

The person below did not know his account was being used, so may be
unaware of this issue.

In the meantime, I have marked his account individually with a
moderator bit, which will cause any posting he makes to be held until
approved by me or one of the moderators.

If YOU have a Yahoo email account that you use for this list, and
suddenly you see your posts are not going through right away, it is
possible we have turned on your mod bit due to an email coming through
to this list you were not aware of.  My best suggestion is for all who
use Yahoo, to complain about this right away.  This has been an
ongoing problem for going on two years now, especially with Yahoo
accounts.  I sometime wonder if they are not selling account info of
their holders.

Thanks for understanding and sorry for the SPAM that came through.

73
Brian / w5ami


On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM,  <w4bni at yahoo.com> wrote:
> whats up amradio at mailman.qth.net I'm now a new man http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx stay in touch
> ______________________________________________________________

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Brian Sherrod - A.R.S. W5AMI
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