Grouply security

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Heather, can you tell us more? I am a Group owner, but didn't know of

this security issue.

How can I tell which of my members are accessing the group through Grouply?

 

Thanks for anything you can share!

 

Shana

 

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:06 PM, heather <upulagi wrote:

 

> Grouply is under serious scrutiny (appalled scrutiny) by Groups

> 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 Groups 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.

> between 0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99

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