Paranoid People's User Group?

[Ben McGinnes]

On 15/10/10 9:11 AM, MFPA wrote:
> 
>> El 14-10-2010 16:58, Remco Rijnders escribió: ...
>>> I guess it would just have been nice if there was an email address you can
>>> send a sign up message to, confirm your email address, and be part of the
>>> group, similar to how mailing lists like this one work, without requiring
>>> people to jump through any extra hoops they have no interest in.
> 
>>   Yes, but that's how yahoo groups work, and we don't
>> have our own server to setup a mailing list...
> 
> I've always thought it odd that they have an "unsubscribe" address but
> not one to subscribe...

They do have a subscription email address (same format as the
unsubscribe address only sans the "un").  They just encourage a web
account and many features (like group file access) require it, so they
want every email address linked to an account.

YahooGroups were originally just ordinary mailing list servers (Listserv
I think, but I can't be bothered double-checking).  When Yahoo were
really pushing them hard, they were trying to provide features beyond
those of "ordinary" mailing lists.  This would have been around nine or
ten years ago.


Regards,
Ben

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