How To Use the Mailing list or E-group
I
have been asked a lot of questions about the E-groups
by various Batchmates. That is why I've decided to
spend some time for this section. I hope you find
this useful.
The Basics
You
have to have an e-mail ID for interacting with people
through the mailing list. You can use any of the e-mail
facilities found on the Internet. But, to get the
most out of the e-group it's better to have a Yahoo!
ID. Why is this? It's basically because our E-group
is owned by Yahoo. By having a Yahoo! ID you can enjoy
the web-access to this group enabling you to view
the message lists from the start. Also you can view
the photos, share the files in the e-group and vote
in the polls conducted every now and then. So, I advice
you to make an e-mail ID in Yahoo! before you attempt
to join.
Joining
You
have to join the e-group to send and receive mails.
For that you can click the following link.
http://group.yahoo.com/group/mctvm96
You will be taken to the home page of the e-group.
There will be a link saying Join this group
somewhere in the page. Click on the link. You will
be asked to sign into Yahoo! with your ID. Sign in
and then you will be taken to the "Join this
group" page. Follow the simple instructions on
the page. In the same page you can
either choose the way in which the posts come to your
e-mail ID ie. as Individual Mails or Daily Digest.
Click JOIN. You will be taken to
the next page saying that your membership has to be
approved by the moderator before you can read and
post messages. You can come back later to see if the
membership has been approved. Once this is over, you
will be able to use all the facilities in the e-group.
Web Access
Suppose
you are already receiving the e-mails from the e-group.
To enable web access click on the link to our group
above. You will be asked to sign in to Yahoo! After
signing in, you will go to the page where you can
enable web access. After that by going to the e-groups'
home, you can click on the various links (like Messages,
Photos, Polls etc.) on the navigation on the left
side of the page.
Editing your Preferences : Individual Mails OR Daily
Digest
After
joining the group, sign into Yahoo and go to the home
page of the e-group. On the right top of page, you
will see a link Edit My Membership.
Clicking on that will take you to the a page (which
is the page you are taken to when you first enable
web access). Choose the way you want the posts to
come to your inbox.
Individual Mails : This means that each post
will come as a separate e-mail in your inbox. The
best advantage with this is that you can reply to
the post directly if you wish. The main problem is
that your inbox will get filled with all the individual
mails if you don't check and clean your inbox frequently.
Daily Digest : This means that you get a
digest of all the mails posted on the day as a single
mail. This is certainly better than the previous
option if you don't want your inbox to get jammed
up.
Direct Links:
On
the right side of this page, I've provided some useful
links for going to the particular sections on the
e-group site.
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