Yahoo groups question - can you message every group?
 

can you message every single group there is with something like 'i just got a new group started.. its at...." or does yahoo can the group quickly?

if so, how would you get traffic to your group?

Yes, but you have to hack yahoo's main server and do it with root access.

:1orglaugh

Post the url here, I'm sure some gfyers will check it out...

if someone who has some actual experience with yahoo, knows their limits, knows how many messages yahoo can take from one ip, for one yahoo account, for one website in the message, etc.. hit me up.

i can automate every single thing.

ICQ me, Myst. Perhaps I can help :)

In order to send a message to a group you need to sign up for that group...

Recently they introduced the "what's the word in the image" test when signing up, so signing up for groups is not as easy any more...

Unless you really know what you are doing, you may be a bit late for the yahoo group spamming deal...

the what's the word in the image really fucks things up.

whats that called?
OCR?

what does that stand for?

good luck :winkwink:

And there is a limit on the number of groups you can be a member of at one time, so spamming like that won't work.

Moreover, most of the groups are moderated so your messages will never make it out of the group founders inbox.

I have very little patience for webmasters looking for the easy way to make money by spamming, which is exactly what this is.

Do it the right way. Start your own yahoo groups, advertise them, and then you can spam the shit out of them if you want.

clearly you dont have a clue what youre saying lol

as for the limit to number of groups, thats easy to workaround when youre a programmer.. if i need group_count/10 accounts, then so be it.. ill make those accounts

Cool, tell us when the programm is ready :)

How are you going to get bast moderation? Can you do that?

Yahoo kills accounts daily doesn't it? How many of the adult groups are more than 1 year old?

you can still sign up for big ass groups with mad members but most of those are just 100% spam anyway and doesn't generate shiat...its a little more difficult to automate the yahoo gayness now..

All of mine are well over a year old. I've NEVER had one shut down and I have several. But I don't spam them so that may be a reason.

Myst, whenever you have some proggie set up for that, do let me know.

Yahoo groups are an excellent way to get traffic. I get a lot of traffic from my groups but I also get a lot of automated SPAM, none of which ever makes it into my grious. But it is a pain in the ass dealing with it when I review posts. You can make money from yahoo groups. DON'T FUCK IT UP FOR EVERYONE BY SPAMMING.

Go ahead and call me here at Yahoo 408 731-3300 so I can read this message to you.

Dear Yahoo! account holder:

By creating and using your Yahoo! account, you agree to abide by
Yahoo!'s Terms of Service (TOS). Pursuant to the TOS, Yahoo! reserves the right to terminate your account or otherwise prohibit use of your account in the event that, among other things, Yahoo! believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS.

It has come to our attention that you may have violated the TOS.
Please reread the TOS and cease any use of your account that may violate the TOS.

If your use of your Yahoo! account is brought to our attention again, and we believe that such use violates the TOS, then we may terminate your account without further notice.

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-Yahoo!

http://www.devaddict.com/article_32.html

Here is some info.

Do you advocate email spamming too?

wow thats a great site, lots of great info.... im surprised ive never run into it before :thumbsup

Are you KIDDING me?:(

Ask Popeye.

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i know what it is, i dont know the technical name for it

Somebody asked what OCR meant. OCR = Optical Charter Recognition

Don?t think that technology is going to work this time.

Thanks. Possibly because it was only recently put online. Feel free to bookmark it though.

;)

If you're targetting adult emails who have an interest in porn - sure, I really don't care. Remember, these people are joining other adult groups, and spamming messages to adult members who openly joined the group also. Immoral? Not really. Ethical? Possibly not. Acceptable? Sure.

As long as you own the group or have the founder's permission, I see nothing wrong with it. This will only work for unmoderated groups anyway and noone reads those anymore. Might as well spam the newsgroups.

Yeah, care to explain how those nobodies convert into traffic than? Because it sure does work.

:1orglaugh

Looks like a promising site. Is it yours?

Yep. I run it with Repetitive Monkey. Thanks for the good words.

Did you read Gene's article? He's undoubtedly treading a fine line, but the strategy proposed falls a long way short of the evils of indiscrimate e-mail spam.

Well you got a bookmark :) I look forward
to seeing how it develops over time.

Nice site... I will read it now :thumbsup

Wow, that is a very good artical :thumbsup

Nice stuff :)

http://www.shiceland.com/gfy/yahoo_ocr.gif

myst - i will contact you in icq ...

Cool, you have a tool to beat OCR? :banana

oooh, that looks like a challenge.. i might hafta try beating OCR too.. looks like fun :)

you mean an OCR tool to beat Captchas :glugglug

took me a second to figure out whats going on in your sig... i feel so dirty for looking at it so long :1orglaugh

that is elite

Beating yahoo image pass is not easy :( You already have code for it?

I coded it in the last 2 days ... :glugglug

Success Rate + CPU consumation is not satisfying yet though :(

WTF? 2 days? You used someone elses source code?

GD only. I'm a fast coder :glugglug

Caecus ?