Bidii africa is a monster, am telling you our organization is being spammed daily with over 6000 emails from this group i did try the ... all in vain anybody with a solution to this monster will be highly appreciated.
Given the volumes you say (6k emails) "broadly assuming" a modest 10kb per email, and a 256kbps (32KB per second) downlink, your organization wastes 30+ minutes daily on downloading junk from this group. Thats a significant bandwidth/opportunity cost. If my memory serves me well, the ICT act espressly categorizes spamming as a specific offence under our laws. As such, all you need is to do is bring it to the attention of the authorities much the same way you would if your offices were vandalized. You could also get more ambitious by identifying their ISP from the "Received" email headers, and enjoining them as accomplices for aiding and abetting a felony -- Lidede A. Eugene CTO, Synergy Systems Limited 020 2113163 / 22240434 ____________________________________________________________________ http://live.mystocks.co.ke/ | Stay ahead of the price carnage at NSE On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:57:08 +0300, Robert Kuria <robbydeno@googlemail.com> wrote:
Morning Good people, Bidii africa is a monster, am telling you our organization is being spammed daily with over 6000 emails from this group i did try the following which never worked; 1. reported abuse 2. un-subscribe thou i hadn't subscribed 3. i also used this url: http://groups.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=groups_unwanted
all in vain anybody with a solution to this monster will be highly appreciated.
On 4/15/09, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Anyone share this experience?
I've been on a short trip away and upon getting back, I checked my email account. Its swamped by mails from a mailing list at bidiiafrika@googlegroups.com.
I have nothing against any groups trying to do their thing and I appreciate the work done by other groups etc but I'm not interested in receiving email about migingo, pregnancy tests and racist remarks etc. I also appreciate that these people thought I was someone who would contribute but unfortunately I cannot.
The strange part is that I never subscribed to this group and so I assume it was done WITHOUT MY CONSENT. I'm assuming that Google do have a policy against spamming, I'm not going to unsubscribe to the mailing list because I never subscribed to it in the first place.
Before I escalate this further, what would you suggest.
Rgds.