In article <8c+6hjDZcr$PFwJ4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 'm involved with a number of mail lists. What keeps happening is that > people's aol or yahoo accounts get hacked in to and are used to send > spam to their contacts - including the lists. Is this not more likely to be malware running on the person's computer? I have seen this several times (as the recipient of such emails): such malware infects the computer and then spams all the email addresses it can find. Aol is (of course) particularly prone to such attacks. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more! To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling