If you were banned or your membership request rejected from this group, its
possible that you have been using a Grouply.com or similar email address. We do
not permit 3rd party groups/email addresses in the SFC. Please read the
information below. If you want to reapply with a regular email address, you are
welcome to do so.

We apologize for the inconvenience.
Sincerly,
The Sims Fanatics Community Team

****Please Read****
From Yahoo Groups Team Regarding Such 3rd Party Groups
There have been several posts inquiring how members should work with 3rd party
websites; below are some clarifications based on the Groups Guidelines that
every Y! user should adhere to when dealing with 3rd party sites (please note
that the Groups Guidelines are tied to Yahoo's general Terms of Service and
should be followed by all Groups users and moderators):

If you are considering providing your Y! username and password to a 3rd party
site which stores that information on their own site, please carefully consider
the risks before doing so. Giving access to a 3rd party can be very unsafe as
the 3rd party site can access your Yahoo account as if it was you accessing your
own account. For example, they could access your address book and send emails to
your friends, change your account settings, or gain access to your personal
information. Under Section 5 of the Yahoo! Terms of Service "You are responsible
for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully
responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account." For
more information please also refer to section 5 of Yahoo's Terms of Service.
Group Moderators have the responsibility and the right to enforce their own
membership guidelines for their group. The guidelines can relate to how group
members deal with or interact with 3rd party websites. If a member is part of a
3rd party website in which the site accesses the group content using the
member's login information and/or the user's email and then makes this content
available to other users, this behavior could put them at risk of having their
membership to the group revoked by the moderator or for having their Yahoo!
account closed entirely for a TOS violation. Moderators have the right to
protect their group's content along with the privacy of their members and can
and should enforce this at their individual group level. For more information,
please refer to section 11 of the Groups Guidelines, section 12 of Yahoo's Terms
of Service and privacy/security information.
Groups owners and moderators should take every opportunity to protect their
group members' privacy and integrity of the Groups community and as such,
Yahoo's Terms of Service and Groups Guidelines should be referred to when
dealing with all situations including 3rd party websites.

Thank you,
Groups Team


You can find additional information about this topic here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap0CFbCn247B1sZolwjqxl8jzKIX;_ylv=3\
?qid=20080209144528AA0AGTR and here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqLGsh_N85FF8osNBfVaf.UjzKIX;_ylv=3\
?qid=20080209214049AAtha6M