>> Over the last week or so, Google (in the form of Google Groups) has >> started spamming me. > I have been seeing this behavior for will over a year now, maybe even > two or more. Yahoo Groups is even worse than Google Groups.
I haven't noticed any such problems with Yahoo Groups, but that says nothing, as I blanket-blocked Yahoo even longer ago for having totally nonfunctional abuse-report handling. (On at least two occasions, people have told me it's been fixed. Each time I've lifted the block and found it no better; I'd take a lot of convincing before I give them a third reprieve. I can go into details about the misbehaviour I saw, if anyone cares.) > I have seen a couple of different variations of the problem. > 1) Some moron subscribes a mailing list [...] to the group. Then, > when you post to the mail list, you either get a bounce (saying you > are not authorized to post to the group), or you get automatically > subscribed to the group. Sounds as though this would require subscribing the group to the list, not the other way around. This could, I suppose, have been responsible for what I saw, but for GG to do nothing to fix it - heck, not even doing anything to cause the mail to stop! - after at least three days of daily reports makes them part of the precipitate. > 2) Some malware propagator sets up a group that apparently does not > require you to confirm. If GG supports that? In today's Internet? Then they are _definitely_ part of the precipitate. > My $0.02 worth! [US$, not CA$ ;-) !] Thanks for the confirmation that I'm not just an isolated case here! /~\ 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.
