On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I have been inundated with non-requested yahoo groups signups, here is
> the latest one:
>
> I've added you to my ctrxcynyf group at Yahoo! Groups, a free,
> easy-to-use service. Yahoo! Groups makes it easy to send and receive
> group messages, coordinate events, share photos and files, and more.
Happened to me. I dislike the philosophy whereby you can add a random
person to the group, whether he likes it or not.
> The first one I disregarded thinking it would go away, but then I started
> getting these group garbage e-mails, I went to the yahoo abuse page
> and filed on it, got the obligatory, "we respect your rights etc ad nauseum"
> e-mail, and forgot about it until a few days later when I got another one,
> again I went through the same process, and again the same e-mail, then
> the cycle repeats again and again, how do you get rid of these things??
>
> Everyone of them is a nonsense group name, not a one of them makes
> sense, it appears that it maybe some other language, but I am not sure
> what to make of it, but it is very frustrating, I have marked them as spam
> but new ones come in about every 2-3 days.
You could blacklist the sender in your spam-checker. Alternatively, there
used to be, when you went to the group's home page on yahoo.com, a button or
link marked "unsubscribe". That, if still there, sounds like it would do
the trick.
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