[games_access] Amount of Spam on the List

[d. michelle hinn]

Hi all,

I'm not sure what is happening but our "usual" amount of spam that I 
get as list owner as bounced/rejected messages notices has increase 
from about 10 a week (through November) to (really) over 100 a day. I 
can filter it out so it's not a big deal but occasionally one of a 
list member's email gets rejected or put on hold (ie, if you send an 
attachment). So if there's ever any concern, please always feel free 
to email me and I can check your account.

I usually give the spam a look through once a day to make sure none 
of them are legit emails (rather than *information* about 
prescription drugs online, male enhancements, home mortgages, and 
lotteries we've apparently won -- although...I'd be glad if one of 
those lotteries were for real -- then we could afford to buy 
quadcontrollers for every game company in the world -- seriously, I 
wish we could! -- and start some major media campaigns/commercials). 
:D But...I go through the folder super fast so I'm sure I've missed a 
few. To help me out, if you have anything strange about how you are 
sending email (ie, you have a different sending address than 
receiving address you subscribed with or your name uses non-Roman 
characters in your email program (the biggest problems are with 
Cyrillic/Russian characters and Asian characters versus accent 
marks), please let me know and I can try and correct it on the 
listserv admin page or help me out and be sure and temporarily change 
these things if possible in your email program. As long as the 
listserv software knows of your address info, usually problems are 
solved...not always...but usually.

Thanks everyone! The IGDA even changed their email address a year ago 
due to spam but we can't afford to do that and lose any members! And 
if it only gets sent to me, I can handle it! :)

Michelle