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I thought Google Groups was defunct. But it appears you can still set
up mailing lists through it. And some spammers have been taking
advantage of this.

Going back about a month, I started getting these spam messages coming
via such mailing lists, which I had never asked or consented to be on.
And to add to the irritation, various other recipients on the list
(typically tech-support addresses) would send out autoresponse
messages, which in turn would be relayed to everybody on the list.

I suppose I should be thankful there were no autoresponses to those autoresponses ...

And when I blocked one such email domain, another one would start up a
few days later.

I figured out how to block them all, by setting up a header_checks
file for Postfix containing the line

/^List-Unsubscribe\:\s*.*\@googlegroups\.com/ REJECT

I’ve been checking my mail logs every few days, to confirm the
effectiveness of the rule (and of course to watch out for false
positives, just in case). And I found a whole bunch of blocked
messages logged from just a couple of days ago, from the latest
attempt.

Can’t think why Google would permit this sort of thing to continue ...
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From Newsgroup: comp.misc

On 2026-04-18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

I thought Google Groups was defunct. But it appears you can still set
up mailing lists through it. And some spammers have been taking
advantage of this.

[...]

Can’t think why Google would permit this sort of thing to continue ...

If they really cared, they'd have addressed that problem when it was
brought up, instead of just ending the USENET peering.
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Nuno Silva
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From Newsgroup: comp.misc

On 18.04.2026 07:02 Uhr Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

I thought Google Groups was defunct. But it appears you can still set
up mailing lists through it. And some spammers have been taking
advantage of this.

The issue is that anyone can just subscribe hundreds of addresses
without double opt-in for the list.
Such a design clearly shows that this service is made for spammers.
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kind regards
Marco
Send spam to 1776488577muell@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de
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