> (And incidentally: a growing number of social networking sites are > turning out to be prolific spammers. One in particular seems to me > to be nothing more than a front. Hardly surprising.)
Over the last week or so, Google (in the form of Google Groups) has started spamming me. I got subscribed to some Google Groups list without even so much as seeing anything I recognized as a subscription confirmation. I phrase it that way because the list traffic all uses the Arabic alphabet, and I can't read even the alphabet, much less any of the languages that use it, so it's possible one of the messages was a subscription confirmation I didn't recognize as such. But I most certainly did not confirm. I wrote to their postmaster. I wrote to the addresses abuse.net listed for them. Repeatedly. At approximately one-work-day intervals, too, not the every-ten-minutes sort of thing. Non of this helped. Then, today? yesterday? I got similarly subscribed to _another_ Google Groups list. This one's traffic was in English, so I'm quite confident I didn't miss a confirmation email. All Google Groups mail is now blocked here. I've been debating with myself whether a blanket block against all of Google is called for. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
