What is "grouply" and is it identity theft?

Answer 1

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Grouply is under serious scrutiny (appalled scrutiny) by YahooGroups list owners for a wide variety of security and list violation reasons. (I know, I'm one of them and am involved in the discussions.)

It IS a problem that they require your YahooGroups ID and password - anyone who's been on the internet for more than three seconds knows not to give out that information to anyone who asks for it uninvited and to look askance at anyone who does.

Many list owners are banning/removing people who access their lists through Grouply, and are working with the Grouply founders to fix the serious security problems that were discovered by list owners testing the system out of necessity because their lists' integrity was being compromised. The problems are legion, are being worked on (albeit with some reluctance in the case of some, and not addressed at all in the case of the inquiry as to whether it would be possible for Grouply to work WITHOUT the necessity of providing ID and password - resounding silence there), However, I, for one, as a responsible list owner, won't be allowing Grouply members to be on my lists until all the problems are satisfactorily resolved.

Source(s):

Various YahooGroups list owner/moderators' discussion lists, some of which have open archives if anyone not a member wants to get the real skinny on the problems that have surfaced and are being worked on.

Answer 2

Technically grouply isn't a word at www.m-w.com or urbandictionary.com. I went to grouply.com and it appears to be some place to get all of your messages at one spot.

Very much like Trillian, the program that combines Yahoo Msg, AIM, and ICQ into one program.

I would trust them, only because the people who really want that don't usually have the most important information. I have no important information in my email, notices of Best Answers, bots on Myspace, you know, boring spam stuff.

I'd give my password to them, let them delete it :P

They seem trustworthy though.

Answer 3

I got an email saying that it used your email address to send out spam in your name...porn, spam, get rich quicks...IMO, anyone that needs my password . . . well, that's just not smart. Why take chances? If yahoogroups can send me daily digests then why would I need someone else to digest for me? Not worth the risk for me. I value my friends, and sending them a bunch of spams is not my idea of valuing friendship. People that I know who have tried have started getting tons of spam and not all of their messages.

Answer 4

No, Grouply is not identity theft at all. This is unfortunately a horrible rumor a few people are spreading across the internet. Grouply is designed to be a tool that not only helps you manage your Yahoo!, Google and other groups better (although, currently they only support Yahoo! Groups) but also for group members to socialize with each other.

They are a legitimate company, funded through VCs and the owners are very amiable and friendly.

I have been trying Grouply for a while now. Like every new tool out there, there are kinks in their armor, and they are fixing it as they go.

Hope this helps. Visit http://grouply.com with an open mind. I was a little against it myself initially, but my thinking changed as the days passed, especially with the responsive customer service.