TN-Birders: FIRST: Do not reply to the spammer which just posted to TN-Birds under the name Jason with a message subject of mvt. SECOND: Do not take any action to keep this spammer from sending messages to you over TN-Birds Net. The message at the bottom of his post, saying he respected your privacy and if you would reply to him your e-mail address will be purged permanently from this database, is a FALSE STATEMENT. He was able to subcribed to TN-Birds under 3 different e-mail addresses about 10:30 p.m. (Eastern time) tonight (Sat.) and immediately sent that spam. His spam WAS NOT ADDRESSED TO YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS. It was sent to the TN-Birds address. Responding to him might do nothing more than just put you right onto one of his database lists. He does not otherwide know your e-mail address. This is the first spam I remember getting onto TN-Birds. It was no small feat that he was able to get on and subscribed at least three times with three different e-mail addresses. I detected that what appeared to be a spammer had subscribed. By the time I was able to get him locked away from the list he had already posted. It all happened in about 2 minutes with me sitting here looking. As moderator, I have taken steps to block the Spammer every way available for this first round. He is blocked from sending mail from any of those three addresses. He is on moderation so if he sends a message I will get it first and can block it. He is locked out of the list so he can't receive mail from TN-Birds at his address. He is assigned to vacation status so there is a backup to keep him from getting mail. He is on disciplinary action which should help stop him at all three addresses. I am sorry that someone finally spammed us. I hate it because we have had a wonderful record. Someone will report that spammer to Freelist and they will, no doubt, block his ISP from coming over their servers. At least we hope so. And, one day, we will eventually get hit again. I just hope it is not some offensive spam that will make TN-Birders have an unpleasant experience. If it happen, maybe you can stomach it and go on. Several other birding lists have been hit so hard they are moving around from one server list to another trying avoid the spammers. Freelist has been well protected. We are also grandfathered to Freelist at this point. They have long ago stopped taking any birding list on their service. So we are proud to be here. We hope we can keep it that way. Let's go birding.... Wallace Coffey Moderator TN-Birds Tennessee Ornithological Society Bristol, TN