If the group is improperly set up (allowing open posting to anyone that subscribes, with no checking of the email address or first posts by the moderator, then spammers have a field day on those groups (they can join and post within seconds, then move to the next group). Most that do this are porn sites, but some are "this worked for me" type posts. Some older groups have no moderator and get slammed by these. Most active groups set all new posters to moderated status and usually are spam free.
Karen ps. Depending on the set, the owner can join anyone to a yahoo group -- but I think they limit how many you can join up at a time nowadays. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Bramble Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPAM - Yahoo Groups My understanding is that in order to be on a Yahoo Groups mailing list, you have to actually join that group...you can't just add people indiscriminately. I've seen many people using the groups for advertising, but that doesn't mean that it is spam. It might be possible though that spammers are joining lists and pumping through advertisements to the list members. I look at this as more of a problem that Yahoo has to deal with instead of someone like myself. Yahoo does monitor for this type of thing, and they are pretty good about keeping their message boards clean. The list admins can always set things up so that they are moderated, and of course delete memberships for any offending accounts, but IMO, it's not my problem if this stuff gets through their private lists. Matt Kami Razvan wrote: Hi; For the first time I received spam through Yahoo Groups. I thought Yahoo Groups are pretty much on subscription base and spam should not get through.. We have it on a negative weight since people are subscribed to different groups and it was getting caught but now we have to rethink this.. This spam would have been caught because of the URL's in its body but with the negative weight of Yahoo Group it came right through.. Anyone else getting spam through yahoo groups? Regards, Kami --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
