On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Andrew Gerrand <a...@golang.org> wrote: > > As an experiment, I have banned those users from the group. > They can mail us if they have questions about it, at which point we can ask > them what the deal is with the forwarding. > I doubt we will hear from them. > > If anyone sees other addresses doing this, let me know.
It hasn't helped. I'm still getting e-mail messages. I may be missing something but I don't see how it could have helped. Those users aren't on the list. And the e-mail messages aren't being sent back to the list. They're being sent directly to people who send e-mail to the list. Anybody could be doing this simply by scraping messages from the groups interface. Why anybody would do this, I don't know. The messages have some garbage characters at the bottom. Perhaps this is a modern equivalent of a numbers radio station: anyone in the know can get one of these replies just by sending an e-mail to the group, and since so many are sent out even tracing IP connections would not reveal who the intended recipient is. Ian > On 3 March 2017 at 07:56, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Nyah Check <check.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Has anyone noticed there might be some bots subscribed to this mailing >> > list >> > that constantly forward discussions to our emails? I've noticed this >> > about 3 >> > times already. I don't know if there's something the Group admins can do >> > something about. Here are some of the emails I've found. >> > 1.) mott.barb...@yahoo.com >> > 2.) erminiak...@yahoo.com >> > 3.) thomas_ch...@yahoo.com >> > 4.) ryan_conk...@yahoo.com >> > >> > Apparently they're all "yahoo" email addresses. >> >> I have noticed this too. i got at least two today. I'm a group >> admin, but I can't think of anything to do. The fact that the e-mails >> are sent from @yahoo.com doesn't imply that they are being triggered >> by e-mail sent to @yahoo.com, and even if it did we wouldn't know >> which specific @yahoo.com address is causing the problem. And the >> e-mails being sent out are not going through the group, so there isn't >> anything we can do about them. >> >> I'm open to suggestions. >> >> Ian >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
