Here is a moderator's note from another list I am on. I hope nobody
on this list bit on this bit of spam.

I have been alerted to a problem that so far has eluded us, but has
been seen on other YahooGroups.

An email organization known as "Grouply" asks that you join, and then
use their service to better track all your various YahooGroups and
GoogleGroups memberships - like an RSS feed thing I presume.

To join Grouply, you register with them by giving them your Yahoo ID
and password. Bad idea. Once they have your ID and password, they
hijack your account and send emails to your groups asking more folks
to join Grouply. For a moderator of a list, they could conceivably
take control of your list and do with it as they will.

Any sign of 'grouply" activity on these lists will be dealt with by
immediate banning of the poster, since their account will already have
been compromised.

I have checked this out on several inquiries, and have found that this
is an identity stealing organization. Please do not respond to
anything you might receive from anyone requesting you "join"
grouply.com. If you do, delete them immediately from your email
address book and take steps to further increase the security on your
Yahoo ID account, like changing your password.

If you have any questions about the further dangers of this problem,
you can email directly off list.



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