Re: e-mail problem

[Guest guest]

Hi Torsten,

You mentioned the email provider I use so I thought I'd add to your

post, if it's okay.

For me, the benefits of my email provider are:

1) it's free

2) it has really cute graphics (okay, so I like 'em!)

3) it's easy to send their animated and musical e-cards

4) it's easy to create folders for filing email that I want to save

5) it has an easy-to-use address book

6) it supports environmental causes

The negative side is that it doesn't offer a ton of storage space,

especially if you belong to several internet groups and also get

private email.

Because of this, I have to either get list/group mail in digest form,

(which I hate because a lot of internet jibberish comes through), or

opt out of getting individual emails.

I found the perfect solution for all my yahoogroups is to set my mail

preference to " no mail. " This way, I don't have to worry about

bouncing email, or my mail box getting too full, or chance not seeing

a private email because it happened to get mixed with a ton of group

mail.

To change your yahoogroup mail options, just go to the top of this

page where it says " Edit My Membership. " When that page pops up,

scroll down to the part where it asks how you want to get your mail.

There are four options: individual daily email, announcements from

list owner only, digest, or no mail.

If you click " no mail, " then you don't get any daily mail. All you

have to do when you're ready to read the mail from CF Parents (or any

yahoo group), is just go to www.yahoogroups.com and log in. All your

yahoo groups will show up, and you click on the group that you want to

read mail, and that group's home page loads.

You will immediately see the five latest messages, but if you click on

" Messages " in the left-hand side bar then you can read all the

messages (sometimes there are so many messages, that you might need

to also click " Previous " to go back where you left off reading the

day before).

Believe me, I find it a whole lot easier to keep track of email this

way and I never have to worry about my email box becoming full -- and

I never have to worry about accidently deleting an email or missing

mail while I'm away for an extended while.

I hope this helps. Oh, one thing I noticed with yahoo -- for about one

week after I change my email settings, for some reason, yahoo will

change them back to " daily individual email " again. So you have to

keep going back to reset it to " no mail, " until yahoo's brain gets the

message.

Hope this helps.

Kim

Hi,

thanks for mentioning that. During the last week Yahoo has put at

least 30 members of the group to bouncing status. This usually happens

when your e-mail account is full, but from personal experience I know

that it can happen for other reasons to. In the past I was at least

able to unbounce members on my own, but today I can only send out

reactivation requests. It's very time consuming and frustrating to do

that and since almost all bouncing addy's are yahoo- or hotmail-users

I can only recommend to use other mail providers with larger accounts

and less software problems. I think the provider www.care2.com, that

Kim Payne uses is a good one and maybe others can recommend a free and

easy to handle provider too.

The bad thing about Yahoo is, that they remove you from all lists

without warning and without telling you about it at once. All of a

sudden you don't receive mail and can't write to the list anymore. And

there is nothing I can do about it, sorry. I work with two accounts at

the same time, so that I have a back-up just in case. But of course

handling two accounts doesn't make things easier :-((

Peace

Torsten, dad of Fiona 5wcf

e-mail: torstenkrafft@w...

[Guest guest]

Hi Kim,

thanks for your explanations! Just one thing, except from frequent

posters like you I prefer it, when members use the " Special Notices "

option. Reason is, that people may forget about their list membership

and with more than 500 members it is impossible for me to check, what

adresses are still active. So I change the no-mails to special

notices and send out a few messages to find out who is still there

and who is not.

Aside from that, if anyone knows a free mail provider, who offers

accounts with space for say 5MB and 500 messages, that would be a

good alternative for the yahoo and hotmail clients.

Peace

Torsten

> To change your yahoogroup mail options, just go to the top of this

> page where it says " Edit My Membership. " When that page pops up,

> scroll down to the part where it asks how you want to get your

mail.

> There are four options: individual daily email, announcements from

> list owner only, digest, or no mail.

>

> If you click " no mail, " then you don't get any daily mail. All you

> have to do when you're ready to read the mail from CF Parents (or

any

> yahoo group), is just go to www.yahoogroups.com and log in. All

your

> yahoo groups will show up, and you click on the group that you want

to

> read mail, and that group's home page loads.

>

> You will immediately see the five latest messages, but if you click

on

> " Messages " in the left-hand side bar then you can read all the

> messages (sometimes there are so many messages, that you might need

> to also click " Previous " to go back where you left off reading the

> day before).

>

> Believe me, I find it a whole lot easier to keep track of email

this

> way and I never have to worry about my email box becoming full --

and

> I never have to worry about accidently deleting an email or missing

> mail while I'm away for an extended while.