At 05:27 PM 05/07/02, dj pie wrote:
quoted 12 lines If you go to > > If you go to http://groups.yahoo.com/myprefs you'll see a list of your
> > registered address(es). Click the "Options" link next to each of them, and
> > you'll get an options screen.
> >
> > The first option should be "Group Invitations", which I believe is set to
> > "Allow group moderators to directly add me to their groups" by default.
> > Change that to "Allow group moderators to invite me to their groups" - you
> > may still receive annoying invitation messages, but you can just ignore
> > them and you won't be on the list.
>
>interesting and useful, but the email address that the subscribed
>message was sent to was never registered with yahoo groups...
Oh. Well, never mind then. :)
quoted 2 lines i would assume that this means that yahoo allows you to add non-registered
>i would assume that this means that yahoo allows you to add non-registered
>users to your groups at will. gah.
Yeah you can, although it says next to that option on the Invite Members
screen to "Use this feature responsibly". I believe you can report list
admins who abuse this option to YahooGroups, but I'm not sure what sort of
action they'll take.
Greg
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