On Monday 12 July 2010 20:26, alex_kl5 wrote:
> Hey There,
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> Sorry if I'm going off topic here, but this guy named "Dragon Gex" keeps
> inviting me to this thing called "Grouply." He's a member on this site.
>
> First off, is this guy real? Or just another automated message thing.
> Second, what's Grouply? Personally, I've never been up to all those
> networking sites. FA and DA's really the only thing because I can post
> work there.
Grouply is a third party aggregator service for Yahoo groups. They are also
unrepentant spammers.
One thing they do is to default to spamming everyone on a new user's Yahoo
address book or who share a group with the new fool^W user, (it's possible to
avoid, but guess which is the big obvious "continue" link and which is a tiny
little thing off to the side).
Using Grouply's opt-out systems is _not_ advised. Virgin address tests have
implied that they sell addresses to other spammers.
Many Yahoo groups have rules regarding Grouply, common are refusing
grouply.com email addresses and kicking off users who fall for
Grouply's 'please click our send spam button for us' trick.
> Sincerely,
>
> Karl
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Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
Received on Tue Jul 13 2010 - 06:49:57 CDT