I have removed and banned the two
members we had with @grouply.com email addresses. There is an outside
chance that other grouply members, using regular emails, are still members
of our group, but there is no way to identify them.
I went to the grouply.com site, despite dire
warnings from my firefox browser that I was entering an extremely dangerous
site, and I went to the group owner
controls page, which was deliberately designed to deceive. It
had a prominent place to block grouply members from posting invitations to
the group, but unless you noticed the teeny tiny advanced options link, you
would fail to discover the ability to also block access to out group and to
delete existing group messages from their site.
I blocked everything and received email
confirmations of everything being blocked and deleted back from
grouply. I'm not sure just how big a
security risk this thing was or is, but who needs it.
I find it amazing that people would just
hand over their yahoo id and password to this site to join. Are these
people nuts? ; If I've banned two people crazy enough to do this
without good reason, so be it. One was a new member and the other a member
since 2003, who just changed her email address to grouply , but has never posted
a message to the group during her five year tenure.
Did I miss anything in my cleanup
efforts? Any other security concerns? Sleep well
everyone.
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:58
PM
Subject: [disklavier] grouply is
associated with spam and worse
If someone opn this group uses grouply, we are at risk of all the archives
being copied over to their server available for anyone to data
mine.
The moderator needs to ban this member and request that grouplyi
not store our archives, or they will.
Blessings,
Wanda