Warning about Grouply--stay away and don't sign up for it!

[Guest guest]

As far as I'm concerned, Grouply is a hazard, and I'm

with the guy quoted on Snopes.com.

Briefly, in order to join Grouply, you have to give them

your Yahoo groups userid AND Password. That lets them

access all of the groups files, member lists and so on and

so forth that are marked " members only " and publish them

to the world - which they do.

That's a total violation of the group owner's and moderator's

right to restrict information to members. It's a violation of

Yahoo's Terms of Service as well. They say that a group owner

can opt out - by supplying their Yahoo groups ID and password,

which gives them access to the information that the owners and

moderators have marked private to themselves - such as this

group's membership lists. I mean, how stupid do these people

think everyone else is?

The only solution that works so far is to ban any member that

joins Grouply and then invite them to rejoin with a different

Yahoo ID and password - and with the understanding that

they'll be banned permanently if they give that ID and password

to Grouply.