Jay Honeck wrote:
The main drawback of Yahoo Groups is the requirement to "join" the group
through a rather extensive series of web-based forms. I know a lot of our
old-timers (and some of our young-timers, too!) regard using the internet as
a giant pain in the butt, and I fear they would take one look at it and
throw their hands up in frustration.
Bzzzzt! Wrong. Yahoo groups can be used, and subscribed to, like a normal
E-mail list, if the user chooses to. There's no need to use the Web
interface at all. Using, for example, the "pipercherokee" group, you can
subscribe to the list by sending a message to:
unsubscribe by sending a message to:
and post messages by sending them to:
There's absolutely no reason to use the web interface. I always use the
web interface, because it's really not that hard, but you don't have to.
--- Jay
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