Yahoo! Groups: Welcome to WebSurfing. Visit today!

[Dennis Smith]

The problem with Yahoogroups is someone can spoof a from address and
use that to sign up to a Yahoogroup. If they spoof the email address
for a infradead group or some other mailing list and sign it up,
anyone can click the link to agree to the sign-up and unsubscribing
can only bee done by one person....if your lucky. The problem is the
proper group/messaging board will often be inundated with spam that
otherwise would have been sent to the Yahoogroup.

It's been a problem for some time and it looks like no-one has fixed
it. From the Spammers point of view all they have done is generate a
single place to send messages to that will be received by everyone on
either group.

Dennis Smith
M1DLG

On 21 July 2012 21:40, Christopher Woods (CM)
<christopher at custommade.org.uk> wrote:
>
> This keeps on bloody happening. If it's not PayPal spam it's the whole
> list being signed up to Yahoogroups, what's going on?! List admin, what's
> the craic? ;-)
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 21/07/2012 21:06, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>>
>> This seems to me like a big mistake, no?  Like we've just signed up the
>> mailing list to be a member of some spamming list?
>>
>> D
>>
>>
>> On Jul 21, 2012, at 10:48 PM, WebSurfing Moderator wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Welcome to the WebSurfing group at Yahoo! Groups.
>>>
>>> Please place the name of your group in the subject line.
>>> Include the mainpage URL of your group in the body of the
>>> e-mail, so that others may easily click on it to get there. (Including
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>>>
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>>>
>>> Cami
>>> WebSurfing listowner
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