In the last few days, I am getting a lot of spam from YahooGroups. Spamsters have found a simple way of spamming: create a group, add people's email addresses to the group suo-motto! The spamsters are so brazen to create group names which look Spam in the first look.
This is not so much trouble than being an irritant, because as soon as I see the invite, I quickly go to the group and "leave" it. But thanks to the cumbersome process flow of Yahoogroups, to do this, I have to spend at least 4 clicks to do this.
Go to YahooGroups Home → Click Manage Groups → Browse to the concerned Spam Group → Click 'Set Profile' → Click Edit Membership → Click Leave Group.
And this is assuming you are a seasoned YGroups user who knows his/her way around (folks like me)! Though the simplest way is to unsubscribe by replying to the 'add' mail; but the on-screen process can be simplified by providing a "Leave Group" button on the Manage Groups page itself.
One of the reasons why I quit using my Yahoo Mail account was huge amount of spam which its spam filters could not detect. I already had started liking GMail by then and the switch - though painful (I had a vacation responder which said please mail me on my Gmail for 5-10 months on my Yahoo Account), has been worth the effort.
I really hope I am not forced to move my Yahoo Groups (those which I am a moderator) to Google Groups due to this spam. Yahoo needs to do something to control this. I am sure the spamsters behind this are using automated scripts to create bogus groups and send out invites; should not be too difficult to catch them and block such activity.
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Go to YahooGroups Home → Click Manage Groups → Browse to the concerned Spam Group → Click 'Set Profile' → Click Edit Membership → Click Leave Group.
And this is assuming you are a seasoned YGroups user who knows his/her way around (folks like me)! Though the simplest way is to unsubscribe by replying to the 'add' mail; but the on-screen process can be simplified by providing a "Leave Group" button on the Manage Groups page itself.
One of the reasons why I quit using my Yahoo Mail account was huge amount of spam which its spam filters could not detect. I already had started liking GMail by then and the switch - though painful (I had a vacation responder which said please mail me on my Gmail for 5-10 months on my Yahoo Account), has been worth the effort.
I really hope I am not forced to move my Yahoo Groups (those which I am a moderator) to Google Groups due to this spam. Yahoo needs to do something to control this. I am sure the spamsters behind this are using automated scripts to create bogus groups and send out invites; should not be too difficult to catch them and block such activity.
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