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Debbie,

Does "[TOS prohibition on collecting email addresses]" include
harvesting email addresses to send them invitations to another
groups.io group?

I would think so, if the invitations would be considered "unsolicited" by the recipients.

Note that might not have an obvious interpretation; the group's culture and norms come into play. Some groups consider off-list contact between members to be entirely normal (and hence participation in the group constitutes tacit consent) while other groups consider off-list contact to be forbidden or even reprehensible.

And there can be cases in between. For example, when discussing things here in GMF I've been known to send a member of GMF an invitation to join my test group. Often I'll mention that on-list, but I can't say that I always do. Sometimes I just write a personal note into the invitation itself. One could argue that such invitations (or at least some of them) are unsolicited in that the GMF member did not explicitly ask for an invitation. I would assert that their assent to be invited, even if post-facto, is a reasonable inference from the conversation about resolving a particular question.

Note also that I think the wording here implies that the aggrieved party is the invitee, not the owner of the group whose members were targeted.

If so, is [email protected] the correct place to report it to?

Yes. The very last sentence of the TOS:
"Please contact us at [email protected] to report any violations of
these Terms of Service or to pose any questions regarding this Terms of
Service or the Service."

Shal


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Debbie,

I'll write to support (Mark?) and see what he suggests should be done.

Yes, Mark Fletcher.

Maybe I just need to write to the owner of that list and make him
aware of the opposition to what he's doing.

That might be a good first step. It is always possible that he doesn't realize that others might object to being invited "out of the blue".

Shal


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