Ang: Re: Ang: Announcement: Opera-Users mailing list to be closed in late July, 2010
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>----Ursprungligt meddelande---- >Fr=E5n: [email protected] >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 do= n't tell = 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 subs= cribe by = email, and that they want us to believe that we have to sign up as a member= of yahoo. cheers/Rolf -- Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=3Dunsubscribe