Re: Worsening google service reputation and abuse

[Marco Moock via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

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.

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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