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by mcav 6073 days ago
Groups does have a 1-5 star rating system; I've noticed spam often gets one-star votes in groups I frequent. But that doesn't really address the problem; they ought to have a "report spam" featuer as well.
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So the spammers just start reporting a bunch of good emails as spam in order to confuse the moderation system.
This actually happens in webmail quite a bit as well. Spammers open up a bunch of accounts, spam themselves, then mark their messages as "not spam". But the major vendors have figured this out.