The email address that has been sending the suspicious messages to tn-bird used to belong to Dick Schier in Chattanooga. Dick sadly died a couple years ago. He was a wonderful photographer of birds and a legitimate subscriber to TN-bird. Someone has apparently hijacked his email account to send these messages. Carole GobertKnoxville From: jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [TN-Bird] PROBABLE VIRUS -- SUBSCRIBER BLACKLISTED Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:45:06 -0500 TN-Birders: Do not open the vile with subject Re1. It is from rschier461@xxxxxxx who appears to have sent a virus-type file to our list. To the best of our knowledge, this email address is not subscribed to TN-Birds but managed to either get in post the possible virus, and unsubscribe without leaving a trace. This email address has now been blacklisted from TN-Birds and hopefully cannot again access the list from this address. Do not open any suspicious files or poorly structured email subjects unless you know you are taking a chance on getting a virus from such a message. Several of you are having much difficulty in either getting mail or being able to either make posts to the list or timely posts. TN-Birds has had significant growth in recent months. With that comes 'wildcat' post that do not meet our standards for full names, locations, counties, etc. Some or all of this information is to try and manage not only our list against problem post but to also make the list more useful to those who are searching archives, publishing records in the state journal of ornithology and other needs. Considerable attention is being placed on monitoring and managing these problems. Wallace Coffey Moderator TN-Birds Net Tennessee Ornithological Society Bristol, TN