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Worsening google service reputation and abuse


From: Jared Mauch via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:41:42 -0400


        Is there anyone at Google that is able to address the ongoing
abuse problems that are coming out of your services like classroom,
groups and otherwise?

        Wanting me to create a google account for the addresses that are
receiving the abuse does not scale and as the reputation continues to
get worse, I don't want to block all google services - but getting
someone to work with on the issues would be appreciated.

X-Notifications: COURSE_INVITATION:792026619952-1755166651116
X-Google-Group-Id: 1087901814827
X-Google-Group-Id: 328755863
X-Google-Group-Id: 864553705765
X-Google-Group-Id: 295922276390
X-Google-Group-Id: 534760014314

        Decade+ old mailman has the end-user accept invitations to
lists, but google seems to not even use it's own tools so isn't really
meeting what would be a general standard.

        I saw others complain about this as well, and i've had to
configure various blocking of different google services which is a
moving target of abuse.

        It's fair to say that a human should be able to send e-mail to
an owner alias for a mailing list, but not subscribe that to a group or
classroom.

        - jared


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