It looks like a similar technique that some spammers use to "untrain" bayesian filter. If all words are meaningless, then all messages becomes significant.
Il ven 7 apr 2017, 04:24 Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> ha scritto: > 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. > -- 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.
