[p2p-research] Welcome to the koqgx group (type of email mailng list spam?)

[Samuel Rose]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, thanks sam, if you ever find an article on this, I'd be interested,
>
> Michel
>


Not exactly 1:1 related, but still worth knowing about:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/1419230/jQuery-Dev-Bemoans-Overwhelming-Spam-On-Google-Groups?from=rss

http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/151012,major-spam-campaign-abusing-yahoo-groups.aspx




> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's typical in yahoogroups. Lots of mechanized signups. Sometimes
>> happens on google groups too. The best that you can do from what I
>> understand is to unsubscribe.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Sam,
>> >
>> > perhaps you know more about this, I'm getting several those per week, I
>> > used
>> > to unsub, but I failed to do one, and nothing happened anyway, these
>> > groups
>> > are empthy and seemed to be closed down,
>> >
>> > but does anyone know the context?
>> >
>> > has anyone else experienced such invitations?
>> >
>> > Michel
>> >
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>> > Date: Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:34 AM
>> > Subject: Welcome to the koqgx group
>> > To: michelsub2004 at gmail.com
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>> >
>> > Hello,
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