On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 10:29 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: ....snippage....
> mitra.hesab8042...@yahoo.com has invited you to join the deividfincher77364 > group with this message: > Is this a legitimate google group, i.e. one that wasn't set up as a spam target? I ask because the genuine Google Groups I've seen have either USENET type names or (at least) human-comprehensible names while this one is pure obfuscated garbage. IOW, can junk groups be identified by a rule that looks at the structure of the group name? > The problem is, that this invitation messages are endless... I get tonns > of them and because I have no Google account these messages are probably > spam. > AFAIK you can be a member of a Google Group without having a Google account. Many of them map onto USENET so you can read them without ever going near Google. HTH Martin
