UPDATE re. - privacy warning about a free email service

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

further to what I've already written on this topic, I have discovered,

unfortunately, that although " Grouply " supposedly gives list owners

and moderators a " choice " about whether or not members will receive

spam email, it proved to be ineffective. The other group I moderate

was hit with a second round of spam email from Grouply, using a

member's email address.

Moderating the member has no effect as the emails are not sent to the

list, but rather, individual member's mailboxes which " Grouply "

harvested from that group's membership list. The messages are sent

through the Yahoo server, but Yahoo can do nothing because the

messages are not " from " Grouply, but rather " from " the member's email

address. The ONLY action moderators can take is to permanently ban

member email addresses that have been appropriated by Grouply.

So far ASPIRES has not been hit, but I have heard from some of our

members that they have received " invites " from members of other

groups. So, it's only a matter of time. Remember, DO NOT JOIN GROUPLY

and NEVER give out your Yahoo password to anyone. Yahoo would NEVER

ask you to do this.

- Helen