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IRFCA: Transition to Yahoo
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Last year, eGroups was acquired by Yahoo, and following this, the mailing lists hosted at egroups.com have been moved to the Yahoo Groups web site.
If you only use e-mail to read and post messages to IRFCA, you can continue to do so and you do not need to use a Yahoo id. You can ignore the rest of this page.
However, if you used to read or post messages from the IRFCA web site at egroups.com, or if you want to images and other files posted on the Yahoo site by IRFCA members, or use other Yahoo web features for IRFCA, then you will have to use a Yahoo id in order to be able to use these features.
You may use an existing Yahoo id if you already have one (e.g., if you already use Yahoo mail, for example), or you can sign up for a new one.
How to convert your membership to Yahoo
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Go this URL: Conversion Wizard: http://groups.yahoo.com/memwiz.
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What you do next depends on whether you have a Yahoo id or not.
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If you do not have a Yahoo id, click on the link that says 'Sign up Now'.
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If you have a Yahoo id, sign in with your Yahoo id and password.
Note that this is *NOT* your eGroups or ONEList id and password. It is also *NOT* your local Internet id and password.
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Continue until you get to the page where it asks you select e-mail addresses.
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If your e-mail address(es) is (are) already selected, click 'Continue'.
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Otherwise click on the link that says 'Add new email address'. This will take you through several pages where you supply your e-mail address, and then the e-mail address is verified. Make sure you go through the verification process correctly and completely.
Be especially careful to note the precise address you provided when you joined IRFCA, if you use multiple addresses. Sometimes computers will add the name of the computer or a subdomain to your address when sending mail (e.g., john@pc253.some-company.com instead of john@some-company.com) so you may have inadvertently signed up with a different e-mail address if you joined by mail. You can usually find out the precise e-mail address that Yahoo Groups uses for you by inspecting the headers of your IRFCA mail messages.
The verification process involves an 'authorization code' which is a 5 or 6 digit number you will receive in the mail at the e-mail address you provided earlier. It may take some time (perhaps even an hour) before you receive the mail from Yahoo. Once you have it, you can return to the verification page (the mail message also has a link to this page) and enter the authorization code on the page to continue.
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You will then be shown a list of groups to which you are subscribed with the e-mail address that you entered. If IRFCA does not show up on the list, it means that you entered an e-mail address not recognized by the system. You must enter the exact same e-mail address you used when subscribing to IRFCA (see above). No variation is allowable (after the Yahoo linking is done you can add other e-mail addresses).
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After this conversion, you can sign in to Yahoo Groups with your Yahoo id and Yahoo password and use the site as before. You will no longer need the eGroups password that you used earlier.
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For more help, send e-mail to: webmaster@irfca.org
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Yahoo ids and e-mail addresses
You can subscribe to several mailing lists with one Yahoo id, but different e-mail addresses -- up to 5 -- for message delivery. It gets more complex: if you want, you can also specify up to 5 alternate e-mail addresses for each of those, so that you can post to a list from different addresses but read the mail from just one.
Other Yahoo features
Yahoo allows users to create profiles which are a way to provide some information about oneself to others. These profiles can be seen from the Yahoo Profiles page. This information is publicly available only if you choose to make it available to others.
Yahoo also allows you to send instant messages to other Yahoo users, so this means that if you know another IRFCA member's Yahoo id, you can use this as another way to communicate directly with him or her. To do this you have to install Yahoo Messenger. Note that Yahoo also provides a chat facility for IRFCA which lets several members communicate "live".
Finally, it may be worth mentioning for those who are new to Yahoo that Yahoo of course also provides free e-mail. If you have not used this before, check out the Yahoo Mail page. This is a pretty standard web-based e-mail application, and to access it you use the same Yahoo id and password as for IRFCA. Note that unless you explicitly set your IRFCA mail to reach you at your Yahoo mail address, you will not be able to read it there; it's just a separate mail application.