Grouply Info ....Not Really A Good Idea, Security Concerns ....Just MY Opinion..

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Hello All ,

Since I Have Seen A Few Messages About Grouply, And Have Been Asked

To Join Many Times, I Decided To Check It Out......Sounds Like A

Nice Idea Until You Get To The Perticulars....( YOU Giving Your

Password For Your Account, And What Can Happen To Archival

Materials From This Group **HH** And How Others Can Access It

Without Actually Being A Group Member)

They ARE Working On These Issues, Yet You Will Still Have To Change

Info On ALL Your Usergroups :-(

Documentation As Follows.....

And Liane, Your Light Shines Brightly Wherever You May Be, You Are

Always Helping Others...And Please Know Its Always Appreciated :-)

With Love And Light To All,

Hugs With Happiness,

[[[[ Wild Wizard ]]]]

Namaste...

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http://www.wahm-cafe.com/2008/02/19/grouply-good-vs-evil/

States...

I've heard some reports that after a person signed up with Grouply,

other people started receiving spam emails from their grouply email

address. Unfortunately I can't really comment too much on this as I

haven't personally experienced anything like it, but my warning

stands - give out your passwords and take your chances. Your

password also controls your eMail, so who's to stop anyone

from using your mail system for evil? After all, you gave out

your password of your own free will.

It appears that one of the biggest concerns is from group

owners with good reason. It seems that the archives of

can be made available to the public through the individuals members

sharing them within Grouply. It doesn't matter at all if a group

is set so that only members can access archives, if a group member

makes it available on Grouply, it's available to anyone and everyone

through that website. Which also brings up another security risk -

by providing Grouply with your password, Group Owners

are also giving Grouply full access to their group admin

sections.

Now please keep in mind that anyone can save messages in their email

clients, be that online or offline, but the problem with Grouply is

that these saved messages will be made available to any other

members in the user's social circle - even if they are not members

of the group.

In fairness however, Grouply has come up with an `Opt-Out' function,

where Group Owners can remove their group's posts from

inclusion within the Grouply system, but in order to take advantage

of this my understanding is that the group owner will have to

join Grouply!! For me personally, I'd rather try to plug the

internet security holes and not give anyone a crack at identity

theft.

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http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=508572

States...

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.

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The 'Good " Also.....

http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/shopablogic/post.htm?id=63003043

Things They Are Working On For Newer Versions Such As NOT Having To

Enter Your ID And Password......