On 15 Jan 2002, at 13:11, Shaleen wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have a slight confusion about subscribing to certain lists
> hosted at YahooGroups. Is is mandatory that the subscriber's email
> addr has to be only a yahoo addr (e.g. [log in to unmask] ) inorder to
> subscribe to these YahooGroup Lists ?
>
> Some  of these ezines are pretty large and I would prefer to
> subscribe using my ISP addresses so as to save some online time
> needed to download these.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Shaleen Kumar

  No, it is not mandatory.  I'm in a dozen groups, and do not have a
Yahoo email address.

  To join groups via the web, you need to have a Yahoo *profile*, on
which you specify one or more email addresses, and before you can use
these addresses to join, they need to be "verified" -- a process
where Yahoo sends the address a password that you must retrieve and
enter via the web.  It's awkward, but not actually hard.
  In general, though, you can subscribe by sending an email to

  [log in to unmask]

Depending on how the group's owner has set it up, this will either
add your email address to the group, or send the group owner a
message requesting permission to add your address to the group.  (In
this case, though, you'll want to link that group membership to a
profile if the group has an active "Files" area or the like....)

Dave Gillett

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