Please forgive the previous SPAM

[Irons Fruit Farm Email]

The last email sent to the group was a SPAM email. Irons Fruit Farm
does not condone this action or the information in the email. Please
disregard it and delete it. We are working with Google Groups to
determine the issue.

Over the last week, Google Groups has come under a concerted attack
from spammers.
Using free services to set up redirections to the usual illegal
pharmacies and fake watch scams is nothing new. It is a spammer tactic
that is well documented and understood. These days, the combination of
honeypots (or spamtraps) and the rapid development of spam source and
spam URL blocklists have become a potent force in filtering the spam,
that is reaching epidemic proportions.

Spammers create a few hundred of these "straw men" sites, that
redirect to the site that they want to keep out of the URL blocklists.
So in their spam, they will use one of these hundreds of straw men
sites, which they expect to have a life cycle of only a few hours. By
rotating through hundreds of such straw men sites, the actual target
web site never gets exposed in the spam, and evades the blocklists.

In the past week, the spammers have hit on Google Groups as an easy
target for their abuse.

We apologize for any inconvenience.