Thanks, Ann, for being on top of this. Several of the other lists I belong to have been subject to the "grouply-virus" (for want of a better term, even though it's not technically a virus), and the moderators have resorted to the same tactic you describe here. I just wanted to reinforce your message and tell our members not to deal with these people at all.
Glenna Ann McElroy wrote: > > This is an email I got from several yahoo groups I belong to so I > thought I > would pass it on. Who knows when they will target other groups. > > Ann > > Grouply is stealing Yahoo info > Comment: here is what I got: > > 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 Yahoo 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 Yahoo list mail only. They will also go into > your Yahoo 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 Yahoo groups. > > In order to do this, Grouply requires that you give them your Yahoo 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. Also once they have access to your Yahoo ID they could do > with it what they please. > > 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. > > Shepherds' Spring Farm > North Gower On. > Canada > > http://shepherdsspringfarm.ca/ <http://shepherdsspringfarm.ca/> > > _____ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.8/1289 - Release Date: 2/20/2008 > 10:26 AM > -- >From Bishop, in California's Eastern Sierra Mountains http://sierraspun.com <<Dogs have pals; cats have staff>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
