> On Jun 16, 2022, at 3:55 PM, Brandon Long via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> > wrote: > > You should get a welcome message when a user direct subscribes you to a group > that should have an unsubscribe link in it. The welcome message part of the > flow that the group manager can set should be added to that message.
I have not gotten any welcome messages. But from what you say, there's no opt-in required? No confirmation link? > There are limits on how many people a group manager can add in this way, it's > really not an efficient way to spam a lot of people, but there do seem to be > some low level spammers who spend a lot of resources to spam very few people, > and our abuse systems play a lot of wack-a-mole with them. There's a limit per-list perhaps, but they create multiple lists, and they're not paying people US wages to do this nonsense. > I no longer have any access to look at the abuse results for this group or > owner. And you can definitely report abuse on particular groups from the > web ui, and that is useful to us to learn and improve. So any reports must be manual, and distinct from any other reporting method I may have. You can do better. > I think that welcome message also has a link to the global settings, but it > has been years since I've worked on this. You can set the global settings > from the web ui: > https://support.google.com/groups/answer/9792489?hl=en&ref_topic=2458613 > <https://support.google.com/groups/answer/9792489?hl=en&ref_topic=2458613> > That allows you to prevent group managers from inviting or directly adding > your email address to groups. You're telling me I have to go create a google account for free...@gushi.org (again, only for my work with that project), just to stop it from being added to groups? This is insane. -Dan
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