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HomeSite Club has been spammed beyond recognition :(   Message List  
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Re: HomeSite Club has been spammed beyond recognition :(

If it was yahoo accounts that were all letters or numbers, it has
been happening in every other club I am in. It seems that there
might be some kind of bot at work. Most of the time the links are
dead by the time I get around to reading the digest so I don't know
what was there. like you said tho, probably porn, scams or virii

--- In homesite@yahoogroups.com, ciaolinda <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> As Founder, I don't check in here as often as I should. I was
quite
> shocked to see that since my last visit, the only posts were spam,
by
> people using yahoo email. I hope nobody followed their links. I
never
> did but I'm sure it was either porn or scams or viruses. Did
anybody
> try?
>
> This spam has been going on for months, but it seems to have
finally
> chased all us GOOD people away!
>
> Does anybody know if this is happening in all the clubs? And what
can
> we do to clean this place up!? Should we go to an invitation-only
> club (or whatever yahoo's terminology is)? I don't have a lot of
> extra time to devote to administration. What do you think?




Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:20 am

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As Founder, I don't check in here as often as I should. I was quite shocked to see that since my last visit, the only posts were spam, by people using yahoo...
ciaolinda
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Dec 20, 2002
3:02 am

... I did at first, from some other groups I'm a member of. They led to blank pages, but I wouldn't be surprised if something like spybots were installed as a...
harperbruce
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Dec 20, 2002
1:38 pm

If it was yahoo accounts that were all letters or numbers, it has been happening in every other club I am in. It seems that there might be some kind of bot at...
jvh106
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Dec 21, 2002
2:20 am

Other groups have been getting them. Whaat one of the other groups I'm on has done has made all mail moderated until the admin turns that off for any...
Walter Torres
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Dec 23, 2002
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