[FYI] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Kiagiri <ck@google.com> Date: 2009/1/30 Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Google Groups misuse - spamming To: skunkworks@my.co.ke There is a group calling itself Bidii Afrika (bidiiafrika@googlegroups.com) that has been subscribing people without their consent and sending a ton of email. In addition, they have not been honouring people's requests to unsubscribe. If anyone on this list is affiliated with this organization, you may want to advise the owner/moderator of the group to cease and desist. In the meantime, we have flagged them for abuse. In the event of similar cases going forward, feel free to report such behaviour to abuse@googlegroups.com Regards, - Chris On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, 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.
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