Hi all, This message pertains to those of you who joined the Cayuga RBA text alert group hosted by the app GroupMe. Starting two days ago, we started getting some trolling which has quickly devolved into outright spam. I know a lot of you have been frustrated by this, and although we are working to block these users (and I have contacted the GroupMe admins), there may well be more unwelcome messages in the coming days. Rather than leaving the group entirely, I would recommend "muting" the group. If you have the app on a Smartphone, choose the Mute option (on Android, click the upper right hand corner and choose mute; on iOs, click the upper right hand corner, go to settings, then toggle mute.) For SMS-based users, text #mute to the usual number. (Note: this does nothing if you have the app, just sends a message to everyone with this text.) I encourage everyone to to try to ignore these messages, and I hope we can get this sorted out quickly. I also just put the group in Office Mode so messages won't be sent to everyone (sorry I didn't do that yesterday!) but since anyone in the group has the power to change settings as well as add new people, the pranksters might reverse that at some point. Also, feel free, if you are using the web app, to remove anyone posting inappropriate content from the member list. This will prevent them from rejoining unless another user adds them again.
Again, sorry for this inconvenience, very frustrating for all of us. I guess if any notable sightings come up in meantime, just make sure to post them here on Cayugabirds quickly as always. Cheers, Jay -- Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
