Grouply Warning

[Guest guest]

Hi

This is the notice received from group leaders to groups

regarding Grouply. Don't get caught in this mess. Protect yourself. For your

safety, do not click the link.

Grouply members will not be allowed and will be banned on any group

for which I am a moderator. Jesi, please note. This is the warning

from the group leaders and I have banned a person trying to link to

our groups this morning. This is for your own protection and the

groups.

MESSAGE BELOW:

If you use grouply, you will not be approved. If we find that later

on you change over and use grouply to access our group, you will be

removed from the group. This is a safety and security issue and to

protect our members. Thank you for understanding.

The following will give you important info you may not know:

This info is from snopes.com, not merely an email hoax or rumor.

Grouply is stealing info

There are a few new services coming online which are social

" networking " sites similar to My Space and Facebook. One of these new

services is called " Grouply " . Grouply is tapping lists and

reposting the messages to Grouply members. As soon as ONE list member

joins this service, all of our messages will then be archived by

Grouply. Grouply changes your email address to (yourname)@grouply.

com.for the purpose of your list mail only. They will also go into

your account and change all of your preferences regarding how

you view your mail, whether you get individual posts or digests, and

whether you can be directly added to any of a million other

groups.

In order to do this, Grouply requires that you give them your ID

and password. I am truly hoping that most of our members are smart

enough not to hand over that information to ANYONE--especially to

another web service! There is no guarantee that this information that

Grouply is aggregating is secure, thus leaving your sign-in info

available to spammers and hackers--including all of our list files and

photos.

At this point, there is no way for us to block Grouply's access to our

list (although that is being worked on). Until there is, I will be

checking daily for list members who may have innocently joined

Grouply. I will be unsubbing and banning them, plus making direct

contact with them explaining why we will not allow this in our

membership. They will be welcome to rejoin once they unsub from

Grouply

Diane

Moderator

ived a warning about Groply from another group's moderator, so

thought I should pass this along.

thanks,