Old Hags and Old Farts

I received this from a moderator of another group.

That Grouply is at it again. They are launching a fresh attack on Yahoo Groups, MSN Groups and Google Groups.

For members that are new to groups and are unsure as to what Grouply is, here is an explanation.

Grouply.com is a website that offers you the ability to lump all your groups together.
They give you an @grouply.com email address and let you think you're cutting down so much time when checking your group messages.
In reality though, it's not quite as simple as that. When you join Grouply.com, they ask for your Yahoo username and your password so that they can pull in your groups. Sounds plausible enough.
Trouble is, they then use this information to gain access to your groups and somehow manage to get full ownership privileges as well.
They can view the members list, they can change the settings that the owner/moderator has set in to place, they can remove members at will.
They tend to use this advantage to spam everyone in the group with emails~ practically begging you to join Grouply.com.. And all in YOUR username and email address.

As a result of this,
99% of Yahoo Groups have banned Grouply.com email addresses from their groups. This isn't done to annoy, disrespect or upset potential members, but to protect the group from the spam and God knows what else that Grouply.com can do to our groups.

Just remember that Yahoo constantly
Reminds you NOT to give your sign in details to ANYONE, this includes Grouply.com.

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