From: Manfred von Thun [mailto:
phimvt@...]
>My recollection is that when the concatenative group was
>handled by egroups.com, one had to join to read the emails.
>When I was first invited, I joined and put a link on the
>Joy page advising how to join the group - and of course
>I had to give the name of the group.
I originally set things up that way. I changed it after I realised the
subject was reasonably popular.
>In the meantime the handling of the group was transferred to yahoo.
>Recently I had a private email (from a non-member, at that time)
>suggesting that I update the link to
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/concatenative
>which gets into the group directly. All the old posts are there,
>very nicely archived. But one can read them even if one is
>not a member - as I found out when I visited that site from
>another account which very definitely does not have any connection
>with my normal account. So if I give the above link on the
>Joy page, some marketeer can flood us with advertisements.
No, not possible -- no email addresses show up in the archives, and you
can't sign up without confirmation. I'm a member of many egroups (now
yahoogroups, I guess) and I've never had any problems of spam from them.
The people responsible for managing the groups seem to be very good at
dealing with spammers.
>I nobody objects, I shall change the link on the Joy page
>to the first, longer one above. It saves any new joiners those
>extra two clicks. Please let me know if anyone objects.
I highly approve.
> - Manfred
-Billy