On 8/14/25 11:35 AM, Marco Moock via NANOG wrote:
On 14.08.2025 14:12 Francis Booth via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
On Aug 14, 2025, at 13:49, Marco Moock via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Letting users post thousands of posts into a newsgroup in a small amount of time is also an invitation for spammers. Unfortunately no matter what Google does spammers will always be able to abuse Google Groups. Even if Google restricted free-tier Groups to 5 users you’d only be hurting legitimate users who don’t abuse it. Spammers will just pay Google to continue spamming thousands of people as a cost of doing business meanwhile Google will happily pocket the cash and suspend the offending account for abuse after the fact. That’s just good business. Requiring confirmation from subscribers massively reduces the usefulness of this service for spammers. Limiting the amount of addresses that can be subscribed for new users too.
If they can't send it to thousands, the spammer's customers cannot reach the audience they want.
Here's what I don't understand: Gmail's spam filtering from everything I can tell is really good. Is the implication that they don't run their spam filters on posts to Google Groups? Wouldn't that hurt Google Groups' reputation for other spam filters? It seems like such an easy problem for them to solve. Mike