r***@privat.utfors.se
2010-07-05 18:08:51 UTC
----Ursprungligt meddelande----
The point I was trying to make is that usually there are several steps to
joining a group at Yahoo, and it's a pain in the neck. I've never had
anyone send me an invitation to join a group, so I didn't know that was
possible. To join a group I've always had to go to the site, sign in, find
the group I wanted to join, and go through the signup procedure. Until
Katrina pointed it out I didn't know it was possible to subscribe to a
group by email - the same as with this mailing list. The fact that I
didn't know that is another mark against Yahoo, since they apparently
don't make that feature known[snip]
Some people I know who administer mailinglists say that "we deliberately don't tellThe point I was trying to make is that usually there are several steps to
joining a group at Yahoo, and it's a pain in the neck. I've never had
anyone send me an invitation to join a group, so I didn't know that was
possible. To join a group I've always had to go to the site, sign in, find
the group I wanted to join, and go through the signup procedure. Until
Katrina pointed it out I didn't know it was possible to subscribe to a
group by email - the same as with this mailing list. The fact that I
didn't know that is another mark against Yahoo, since they apparently
don't make that feature known[snip]
about email subscription. We even sometimes shut that opportunity off.". I don't rightly
remember why they did that, but I think they thought it was to troublesome for them... So
it is theoretically possible that Yahoo really does not want people to subscribe by
email, and that they want us to believe that we have to sign up as a member of yahoo.
cheers/Rolf