> This might be of interest: > http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/
Thanks for the link: QUOTE The final straw was placed upon my patience with the Google Groups system a few weeks ago. Spammers are now spoofing the email addresses of existing group participants to sneak their messages through. Previously you would've seen a delightful "FREE MOVIE DOWNLOADS" spam from "[email protected]" - but now you'll see it coming from existing group users - or even the group moderators themselves. This cheat completely bypasses the moderation system since the spammers are pretending to be pre-moderated users. The Google Groups system is completely fooled. The spam message comes in claiming to be from an existing group participant - and according to the Google Groups interface there is no difference. If you click the user's name you'll be taken to a full listing of that user's posts (with the spam messages delightfully interspersed)... At this very moment my own email address, and the email addresses of most of the jQuery group moderators, are being spoofed by spammers. This means that we (the owner and moderators of the group) have to moderate our own messages before we post, for fear of letting a spoofed spam through. This will likely happen indefinitely since Google Groups has been notoriously slow to fix problems with the site. So there seems really no way to avoid this in the future? Though this spoofing spamers seem to choose particularly the addresses of trustworthy members, even of the moderators themself.. If this repeats itself maybe the only way to avoid would be to sign up every few months with a new gmail address? > > I can't see anything indicating that my Gmail account would have been > > hacked. > > However, since if been locked out from TiddlyWiki GG I received 2 > noreply mails by Gmail - on 25. and 28. of October - which say: > .. wanted to add that I haven't posted anything on those days for sure. > > Hello ... > > > We're writing to let you know that the group that you tried to contact > > (tiddlywiki) either doesn't exist, or you don't have permission to post to > > it. > > There are a few possible reasons why this happened: > > > * You might have spelled or formatted the group name incorrectly. > > * The owner of the group removed this group, so there's nobody there to > > contact. > > * You may need to join the group before being allowed to post. > > * This group may not be open to posting. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
