Hi, When this happens, it's not the list being "hacked", it's a compromised email account of someone who's subscribed to the list. Many Yahoo email accounts get taken over -- hijacked -- and then the accounts (and their address books) are used by spammers and scammers. "Yahoo Mail users have been seeing their accounts broken into for months. While Yahoo says it has plugged at least two separate security holes leading to accounts getting hijacked, it appears the problem persists." http://tinyurl.com/aunas4u Securing Your Web Browser: http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/securing_browser/ Hope this helps. Sean Artman Rock Creek, Ohio Robins and killdeer and woodcocks are here in northeast Ohio! No towhees yet, and tree sparrows are still around. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]