Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> > 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!

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