[clue-talk] Fw: Bobbi Sanchez wants to add you as a friend

[David L. Willson]

Please lets try that, but my impression, after some googling around, is that this has
been going on for at least several months, with folks complaining to 'Yahoo!' the whole
time.  It would appear that Yahoo\! is aware of Grouply, and doing nothing to stop them.

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:13:12 -0600, David Rudder wrote
> I got an invite from Bobbi today, too.  I think your timing was 
> coincidence.  I've been a member of the group for years.
> 
> Grouply apparently makes it easy to "invite" a whole yahoo group.  When 
> I went to check it out, I got some pages which would allow me to spam 
> all my Yahoo groups.  I turned it down, obviously, but it seems an awful 
> temptation.  Perhaps we could complain to Yahoo before moving everyone 
> off?  Yahoo can always just ban Grouply's API key.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> David L. Willson wrote:
> > I think it may be time to move CLUE-jobs off from Yahoo\!.  I got Grouply-spammed by
> > gr8t_recruiter at yahoo.com as soon as I joined the group so I could post my opening.  See
> > below:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded Message -----------
> > From: Bobbi Sanchez <gr8t_recruiter at yahoo.com>
> > To: DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
> > Sent: Wed,  9 Jul 2008 10:57:22 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject: Bobbi Sanchez wants to add you as a friend
> >
> > We share the CLUEJOBS group. I want to add you as a friend in Grouply so you can
> > see my profile with my pictures, my groups, and my favorite group messages.
> >
> > Here is the link:  http://www.grouply.com/register.php?r=172098&amp;vt=1243446 
> > .
> >
> > Bobbi
> >
> > ====================
> > This message was sent to you by a fellow group member who uses Grouply instead
> > of email to access your shared group. Grouply blocks additional invitations like
> > this from being sent to you by anyone for 30 days.
> > ------- End of Forwarded Message -------
> >
> >
> > -- David
> >
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-- David