Better way to access - Warning!!!

February 3, 2008

Dear Sreenadh ji, Thanks for the timely warning. Regards, KrishnaSreenadh <sreesog wrote: Dear All, Grouply is a very nice new web 2.0 community which works well with but NOT with groups. The major problems being that - * Your group username and password gets exposed to them! Which in

essence mean that they have full control over our email accounts! That is some thing bad; but the same can be good if people are using seperate email accounts for personal and group activity and then intelligently register ONLY their public emial id (used just for group activity or the like) with grouply. * You may end-up in trouble - feeverishly trying to Repair your groups settings for every group!!! To add to it you CANNOT from grouply!! Here is a review that mentions exactly that -When you sign up and enter your ID, Grouply creates an @grouply.com e-mail address for you and redirects all your Groups' e-mail to that. It then takes over the web management and notifications that otherwise would; they say the idea is to incorporate Google Groups and and send notifications about both all in one e-mail - a great

idea if it actually works! The downside to their service - when you post something to your Groups from the Grouply page, your grouply.com e-mail address is used, not your usual one (so that's bound to confuse some people). This has the potential to attract spam to that e-mail address - I wonder if there are spam controls set up. There are also no group moderation controls "so far". There was no automated removal system, so I had to e-mail them to remove my account and I had to fix my settings from the page. This is a very bad thing, because the average user might not know how to repair their settings. I may try them out again in a few months to see if the service has progressed. It has the potential to be an interesting tool - but they probably should have worked out the kinks before opening the site to the public.<>EDIT:

I've heard back from the Grouply people and they say some of the flaws I've mentioned have been worked on already. This entry was posted by Nathan on Saturday, January 26th, 2008 at 23:39 and is filed under Internet, Opinion. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.(from http://nathanr.ca/opinion/a-review-of-grouply/) * Grouply makes money by advertising - that means you may get spammed, and also that they may even sell your mail-ids to make a business out of it!!! If Grouply is free, then how will you make money?Grouply makes money through online advertising. It's the exact same business model employed by sites like MySpace, Facebook, Gmail, and even and Google Groups. As you read messages and interact with your online community on Grouply, we

will project relevant and unobtrusive ads to you. For now we are focusing on building a strong and satisfied user base, so we haven't yet made it a priority to incorporate ads on the Grouply site. Grouply will never spam users with email advertisements. (from http://blog.grouply.com/protect) Now it is upto you to decide whether to use this very nice web 2.0 community or not. Be in your own risk! Here is some links to the reviews about this newborn web 2.0 community baby - * http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/08/grouply-gives-a-much-needed-upgrade-to-the-board-scape/ * http://nathanr.ca/opinion/a-review-of-grouply/ * Groply people's own statement: http://blog.grouply.com/protectLove and

regards,Sreenadh , Swamy Swarna <truthseeker123x wrote:>> Hi everyone, > > Since we all use to receive messages from this group, I thought I> would let you know about a free service I found called Grouply. It is the best> way I've discovered to access messages from all my . You can use> this link to sign up: http://www.grouply.com/register.php?r=17049 .> > I am a member of so many groups that I found it very difficult to keep up with> all of them. Grouply makes it easy. You can search and browse across all your> groups at once and even view a cross-group event calendar. You can have one> Smart Digest email (which I love) sent to you at the end of each day that> summarizes what's going on across all your groups, highlighting what's> interesting to you

and hiding what's not.> > I've found Grouply to be a huge time-saver for me and I thought it would also be> helpful for others. Enjoy!> > Swamy>

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