Cheryl Harrell
11-29-2001, 07:13 AM
I recently found out that the YAHOO clubs (& there are several on Freddie/CATM like the CATM one, Freddie Fan Club & the ClUB of the Prinzes that's on Sr & Jr) are changing over to be YAHOO groups.
What this is is there was a free e-mail list thing on the internet called E-Groups which were free e-mails lists folks could start on anything & you could join anyone you wnated too. You had the option of getting the messages either in your e-mail or off the message board thing of the site for the club. They have a pictures section & chatroom for each mailing list I think kinda like the YAHOO groups. E-groups aquaired One-List which was a similar e-mail lsit & One-List & E-Groups became one. Then YAHOO aquired E-groups sometime back.
Basically what this means for folks using hte YAHOO groups is not too much of a difference other than things will be mroe e-mail based. In YAHOO clubs you could subscribe to the messages by e-mails but you had go to the club site to post a reply. Or you could read the messages in the club if you chose not to get an e-mail.
With the new format you'll read & replay to the messages in your e-mail but if you'd prefer to read & write messages off the site for the e-mail group (which the clubs will soon be) you can set it up to read & write messages off the site instead of e-mail. Even if you get the messages thru your e-mail you can still go to the site to reply to messages & start new topics & to read stuff off of there.
I think your pictures & etc will be intact. This is supposed to happen within the next few months. Things may look or work a little different but should be easy to get used to esp if you belong to the Freddie e-mail list which used to be on E-Groups but got moved to TOPICA a similar e-mail list thing that is similar to YAHOO-Groups.
The main change I see for the better is you can reply to the messages thru e-mail without having to go to the site to reply which means it'll be easier to reply & if you are downloading e-mails to be read without being online it will be nice to reply to the messages offline & then send up the reply next time you get you get online.
Anyway I thought folks would appreciate knwoing about this...
What this is is there was a free e-mail list thing on the internet called E-Groups which were free e-mails lists folks could start on anything & you could join anyone you wnated too. You had the option of getting the messages either in your e-mail or off the message board thing of the site for the club. They have a pictures section & chatroom for each mailing list I think kinda like the YAHOO groups. E-groups aquaired One-List which was a similar e-mail lsit & One-List & E-Groups became one. Then YAHOO aquired E-groups sometime back.
Basically what this means for folks using hte YAHOO groups is not too much of a difference other than things will be mroe e-mail based. In YAHOO clubs you could subscribe to the messages by e-mails but you had go to the club site to post a reply. Or you could read the messages in the club if you chose not to get an e-mail.
With the new format you'll read & replay to the messages in your e-mail but if you'd prefer to read & write messages off the site for the e-mail group (which the clubs will soon be) you can set it up to read & write messages off the site instead of e-mail. Even if you get the messages thru your e-mail you can still go to the site to reply to messages & start new topics & to read stuff off of there.
I think your pictures & etc will be intact. This is supposed to happen within the next few months. Things may look or work a little different but should be easy to get used to esp if you belong to the Freddie e-mail list which used to be on E-Groups but got moved to TOPICA a similar e-mail list thing that is similar to YAHOO-Groups.
The main change I see for the better is you can reply to the messages thru e-mail without having to go to the site to reply which means it'll be easier to reply & if you are downloading e-mails to be read without being online it will be nice to reply to the messages offline & then send up the reply next time you get you get online.
Anyway I thought folks would appreciate knwoing about this...