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[damerell]

Does anyone at Google even read abuse reports anymore? I'm getting really fed up of ending up getting email from random Google groups. I forget which decade the rest of the world figured out not subscribing people without checking they wanted it, but it wasn't this one. Or the last one. Grumble.

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[hairyears]

Google don't do 'people', they do algorithms and metrics: they totally do not give a toss about any aspect of the user experience that falls outside the metrics of their interface design.

I do not doubt that this problem will get worse.

[watervole]

It can be a useful option sometimes (for those who don't abuse it). A couple of times I've needed to add someone to a group, and that person is really disorganised and keeps forgetting to accept the invitation. Adding him manually (and he does actually want to get the stuff) gets round this problem.

[damerell]

Well, most mailing list software lets you do that, true; but equally that comes with the expectation that the site running it will come down like a ton of bricks on anyone abusing it.