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Tia/Leschke sent this to another group:



I got a message today with a subject line, "Invitation to Join the
Unschooling2 Group. I was suspicious because it talks about the
unschooling group you now are a member of having a technical problem. The
only fast solution is to start a new one with a similar name. First of
all, there *is* no Yahoo group with that name. You're supposed to go
straight to that group's page, which of course is not on the Yahoo site at
all. It's groups.yahoo.com rather than yahoogroups.com. I'm guessing
going there could get you a nice new worm or something for your
computer. Please be careful, and if you've already gone there, make sure
you scan your computer with good anti-virus software.

Tia

victoria

Hi all,

I have already joined this new group. It seems to be on the up and up. Just incase I ran antivirus, it found nothing wrong. Anyone else have any thoughts or the real "What's up"?

Victoria
----- Original Message -----
From: SandraDodd@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 12:49 PM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] ignore e-mail like "Join the unschooling2 Group"


Tia/Leschke sent this to another group:



I got a message today with a subject line, "Invitation to Join the
Unschooling2 Group. I was suspicious because it talks about the
unschooling group you now are a member of having a technical problem. The
only fast solution is to start a new one with a similar name. First of
all, there *is* no Yahoo group with that name. You're supposed to go
straight to that group's page, which of course is not on the Yahoo site at
all. It's groups.yahoo.com rather than yahoogroups.com. I'm guessing
going there could get you a nice new worm or something for your
computer. Please be careful, and if you've already gone there, make sure
you scan your computer with good anti-virus software.

Tia

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Tia Leschke

At 09:49 AM 10/7/2003, you wrote:
>Tia/Leschke sent this to another group:


Actually, I was wrong. I remembered that I was on nomail on the
unschooling group. When I went to *that* group, I found a message about
the technical problems they were having and how to join the new group,
Unschooling2. Sorry about the unwarranted warning.
Tia

[email protected]

> Tia/Leschke sent this to another group:
>
>
> I got a message today with a subject line, "Invitation to Join the
> Unschooling2 Group. I was suspicious because it talks about the
> unschooling group you now are a member of having a technical problem. The
> only fast solution is to start a new one with a similar name. First of
> all, there *is* no Yahoo group with that name. You're supposed to go

i assumed that it was for the yahoo group called "unschooling".
"unschooling2" would be very similar to that. is everyone who got the
email in the "unschooling" group?


> straight to that group's page, which of course is not on the Yahoo site at
> all. It's groups.yahoo.com rather than yahoogroups.com. I'm guessing
> going there could get you a nice new worm or something for your
> computer. Please be careful, and if you've already gone there, make sure
> you scan your computer with good anti-virus software.
>
> Tia

groups.yahoo.com and yahoogroups.com are the exact same website, both run
by yahoo. i've been typing in groups.yahoo.com to get to the site for
months. i'm not saying you're wrong, but that i didn't see anything
suspicious (though i haven't joined the new group yet). i would contact
the people at the homeschool zone website (i think, who the original email
is supposed to be from) or the list owners of either group i mentioned
above, before accusing them of something. :o)

peace,
jennifer

victoria

No big deal, better to be safe than sorry!
Thanks,
Victoria
----- Original Message -----
From: Tia Leschke
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] ignore e-mail like "Join the unschooling2 Group"


At 09:49 AM 10/7/2003, you wrote:
>Tia/Leschke sent this to another group:


Actually, I was wrong. I remembered that I was on nomail on the
unschooling group. When I went to *that* group, I found a message about
the technical problems they were having and how to join the new group,
Unschooling2. Sorry about the unwarranted warning.
Tia




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[email protected]

In a message dated 10/7/2003 11:54:32 AM Central Daylight Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:
It's groups.yahoo.com rather than yahoogroups.com.
When you put in yahoogroups.com, it redirects to groups.yahoo.com. It has
for a long long time.

I don't know why they would try to lure you away with a valid link. There's
something fishy about this.

Tuck


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Tia Leschke

>In a message dated 10/7/2003 11:54:32 AM Central Daylight Time,
>SandraDodd@... writes:
>It's groups.yahoo.com rather than yahoogroups.com.
>When you put in yahoogroups.com, it redirects to groups.yahoo.com. It has
>for a long long time.
>
>I don't know why they would try to lure you away with a valid link. There's
>something fishy about this.


Nah. I was mistaken. The unschooling list actually is being changed to
unschooling2 to avoid a Yahoo problem they were having. I just didn't
realize it since I was on nomail. And searching on Yahoo for the new group
didn't work because it takes a couple of days for groups to show up.
Tia

[email protected]

In a message dated 10/7/03 3:39:22 PM, Tuckervill@... writes:

<< I don't know why they would try to lure you away with a valid link.
There's
something fishy about this. >>

When i go to yahoogroups I just put in yahoogroups.com. I know it redirects,
but as long as it's working, I don't have to learn anything new. So there.

(Not that the thing was from me, but maybe other people are lazy too.)

Sandra

Tia Leschke

>
>groups.yahoo.com and yahoogroups.com are the exact same website, both run
>by yahoo. i've been typing in groups.yahoo.com to get to the site for
>months. i'm not saying you're wrong, but that i didn't see anything
>suspicious (though i haven't joined the new group yet). i would contact
>the people at the homeschool zone website (i think, who the original email
>is supposed to be from) or the list owners of either group i mentioned
>above, before accusing them of something. :o)

I pointed out yesterday that I was mistaken. I *did* try to check it
out. When I couldn't find the group by searching at Yahoo, that got my
suspicions up. I wasn't accusing anyone of anything, just trying to stop
people gettin hurt by a possible scam. I *know* that there are people out
there doing all kinds of things to get people to websites where they will
get a worm. I thought possibly this was one of them.
Tia

[email protected]

<<I *know* that there are people out there doing all kinds of things to get
people to websites where they will get a worm. I thought possibly this was
one of them.>>


Thanks Tia for passing it along anyway! I don't need anymore problems with my
computers so I'm glad you passed that information along even if it was a
mistake.

Kim