Paul, I'm not sure you can keep a list completely SPAM free. But our server has some filters on it that are supposed to catch SPAMS. In general, the filters do a good job. Very few SPAMS get through. Questionable messages are sent to me to decide whether they are a SPAMs or whether they should go out to the List. I don't think you've got, for instance, the really ugly ones by "Olga" from Moscow, who's looking for . . . . Well, you can imagine the rest. For the most part, we stay focused on syntax and such. I assume this last SPAM got through because it doesn't have any vocabulary that excited one of the filters, though I don't know exactly how they work. At any rate, keep those grammar questions and answers coming. Max >---------------------- Information from the mail header >----------------------- >Sender: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar > <[log in to unmask]> >Poster: "Paul E. Doniger" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: "Hotmail" automated message - sent to list in error >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >OOPS! > >Dear ATEGers, > >I recently replied to an automated SPAM that was sent through the >listserve, but my reply went back to ATEG instead of its intended audience. > >Sorry! > >Please ignore that message; I was too hasty with the send button - SPAM >really gets under my skin! What can we do to stop greedy fools from using >our listserve for their nefarious purposes? > >PED