Doug,
I don't think it's a problem with just Google Groups. I have been
experiencing the same thing, and I am not registered on Google Groups, nor
do I use it. I think it's spambots that are harvesting email addresses from
Usenet. I tried to "munge" my return email address in usenet to help
eliminate this problem, but that didn't work. I'm not sure what can be done
about it. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years NO ONE will be able to
use usenet, or internet mail to communicate because of all of the assholes
who create the spambots.

Randy L.

--
"Americans are despised for reasons that
have less to do with who we are and
what we have, and more to do with the
dictatorial political and religious leaders
who seek to shift attention away from
the misery they impose on the people
they control and toward the United
States and others that are guilty of no
more than succeeding where they
have failed. "
-Cal Thomas

"Doug" wrote in message
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Hi Flight Sim addicts, has anybody besides me started getting way more
spam to the email address they registered on Google Groups with?
Before I registered last week, my hotmail address got very little
spam, maybe 1 a week, the evening after registering my account size
was over limit, all crap like phony security updates and email
delivery failures to totally weird email address that i definatly
never tried to email too. And every day it's over limit again unless i
put on full junk mail filter which would probably delete any wanted
mail too. Its very obvious that Google is selling our address (at
least mine) to spammers but when I sent an email expressing my
dipleasure they only sent a short email saying that they would get
back to me and that was a week ago now. I hope anyone else being
treated the same as myself will start bombarding Google with
complaints!