Re: Ang: Announcement: Opera-Users mailing list to be closed in late July, 2010

Sorry, Bruce, but you just made my point for me. "Every message on the  
list concludes with the following instructions:" Certainly, but you have  
to actually JOIN a list and start receiving emails from it to be able to  
read those instructions! My point was that it's not as easy to join a  
Yahoo group as it it is to join a Mailman list; until Katrina pointed it  
out I did not know that it's possible to join a list by sending a  
"subscribe" email. I've already commented on that a couple of times.

Why are all you guys so sensitive about Yahoo? Your experience might be  
different from mine (or you're prepared to put up with more rubbish than I  
am), but the fact remains that my experience of Yahoo is not good and I  
don't like it. Nothing you say is going to change that.

John



On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:51:34 +1000, Bruce Tober  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Or the same one with several people not totally informed.
>
> I've belonged to several yahoo groups/lists. I HATE web-based
> lists/groups. But with yahoo ones, that's not a problem. Subscribers
> have the option to read online or to get messages to the list sent
> directly to their mail box.
>
>> need to jump through hoops at Yahoo!, let alone set up an account at a
>> site - it's a simple matter of sending a "subscribe" email to the
>> appropriate address.
>
> Having set up an account on yahoo one time, the subscriptions to lists
> is as simple as sending an e-mail to the list owner. Every message on
> the list concludes with the following instructions:
> <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
>     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NameOfList/
>
> <*> Your email settings:
>     Individual Email | Traditional
>
> <*> To change settings online go to:
>     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NameOfList/join
>     (Yahoo! ID required)
>
> <*> To change settings via email:
>     [email protected]
>     [email protected]
>
> <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
>     [email protected]
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