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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] spam lists on yahoo

On 12-03-10 01:06 PM, John C Nash wrote:
Note the I did NOT subscribe. Someone else subscribed me. That is the issue.

Just for fun, I did look at what a Group moderator can do.. {anyone interesting in processing Movie film can join the group I admin on.}

Each Yahoo Group can have up to ten members added a day. A moderator can also send out an "Invite" 50 at a time allowing someone to subscribe to both the e-mail and also the web page for the group.

Someone wanting to send spam can of course set up as many groups as they want, by using disposalble e-mail addresses.

The Group you mentioned seems to be such a quick group. Searching for the title I Find

skwft

fb6ol8fa0a

    Members: 191
    Latest Activity: yesterday
    Created: 1 month ago

    Archive: Public
    Moderated: No

If you can't even come up with a one line description....

To drop from the list their is a general format for Instance if there was a "foobar" group you could unsubscribe by sending a blank e-mail to


    foobar-unsubscribe [ at ] yahoogroups [ dot ] com

so a mailto:skwft-unsubscribe [ at ] yahoogroups [ dot ] com should drop you from the spew.

I don't know how you can report spam without having a yahoo ID. Naturaly you can use a disposable address to set one up. But you will have to provide Yahoo with a real address to complain..

If you do set up a yahoo ID and associate it with your address, you can get a list of all your groups, and leave them all. BUT that is a pain

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