Re: strange messages sent to old YG group #yahoo
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Marina, While checking the Activity Log, I was puzzled to notice loads of messages, mostly from @ accounts, sent daily to the group and rejected by Yahoo. Most of them because they were non-members of the group (I'm seeing similar rejections in YGOG and the Yahoo Groups GMF). The subject field of all rejected messages (including those not sent from @ accounts) is made up of numbers and Chinese looking characters. QQ is a service provider in china. I'm not sure why they use numbers instead of user names, but that seems to be their way. Any idea of what it is all about? I don't understand why so many QQ users are pounding away at Yahoo Groups posting addresses. I think maybe many of those accounts are being used by (aspiring) spammers just spewing to lists of arbitrary email addresses. Or perhaps QQ has an infestation of bots driving their servers. In one case, a QQ user managed to join GMF and send a "what?" message (that I rejected). That rejection though lead to an off list conversation in which I learned that this person speaks (or at least reads/writes) English very well. He/She was very surprised to get a reply message from a human, had expected nothing but automated responses. He/She claimed to be unaware of how he/she became a member of the group, and I am still puzzled because I never found the expected Activity Log entries for his/her joining. At any rate, I've chalked up the incident as "mostly harmless". Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Shal Farley