As described on the main page, the BHHS_NSW_1977 Portal has been created specifically for
the students mentioned in the following form/years, or part thereof:
Year7 1972, Year8 1973, Year9 1974, Year10 (SC) 1975, Year11 1976 and Year12 (HSC) 1977.
It is not restricted to only those who completed Year 12 (HSC) in 1977.

The "portal" provides a secure, group email discussion and collaboration area.
It is hosted on Yahoo!Groups.

Membership registrations are vetted and unfortunately restricted to just those students in
those grades/years listed above only. Registration is free.

Teachers & Staff who were present at the school during 1972-1977 are also welcome to join.


Photos, documents, articles and other details of more private nature (not suited for this
website, due to privacy concerns) will be kept on the BHHS_NSW_1977 Portal site.

BHHS_NSW_1977 Portal members can submit additional photos, documents, articles to the
Portal site that they wish to share with other members.
(NB: You must have a Yahoo ID for access to these areas)

The email discussion list has been created as a way for group members to ask questions,
discuss or post items (if they wish) or simply receive news and information from other
members in the group. It makes it easier to contact people from our year for any future
reunions.
(The e-mail discussion does NOT require a Yahoo email account to join the e-mail discussion)

Two methods for registering on the Portal:

Click the button to join bhhs_nsw_1977 Portal (includes the mailing list)

To explain the necessity of requiring a Yahoo ID or adding a profile for you,  is to allow
members to have access to the photos, links and files sections of the BHHS_NSW_1977 portal.

Having access to photos and files and having a Yahoo ID is optional for this group.
If you dont have a Yahoo ID, all you receive is the emails posted to the email group.

When sending a reply or posting a new email to the group, you can do that from either your
normal email client, e.g. Outlook, or you can login into the "portal" and post a message
from within the "portal"

To explain the reasons for the signup and access and having to create a Yahoo ID,
unfortunately it is a nuisance factor, it relates to the structure of Yahoo!Groups and
the requirement to stop hackers and email spammers getting access to ex-student's names,
email addresses and other details, hence the requirement for membership and a login.
Believe me there are individuals and  companies out there trying to collect info,
primarily to spam and sell you something, or steal your identity.
Yahoo have organised these facilities in this way, because, they originally operated the
email groups separately, in fact they bought egroups.com  and added the collaboration
facilities later. This defines why different methods of membership provide different facilities.


To protect your private or work email address, (from having an associated Yahoo ID attached to it)
I can suggest to you what I have done is to create a yahoo7 email account, which comes with
a Yahoo!ID and use that email account to access these facilities. In the future we may
migrate to a system that is easier to access & use, but for the time being we have a
mechanism that is FREE, so we take what we can get. If you already have a browser based
email account, like hotmail, etc, you can still use that here and have a Yahoo!ID associated
with it.  A trick to use to protect your name when creating a web based email account,
is put a spelling mistake in it, your friends will know who you are, but won't mean much
to the general public.

I would prefer to use a portal with single signon, based on email address, plus password
and give access to everything and still keep the hackers and spammers out, but that's in
the future.

Until then, you are permitted to have more than one user account on this "portal",
e.g. you may wish to signup with your work or private email address just to collect emails
of the group mail list, but also have a Yahoo account, just to get access to the photos
and files sections, so that you dont have to check in with the Yahoo account constantly
to check for emails.

An option which I use from my Yahoo7 email account is have the email forwarded to my work
email account, using POP redirection, which means if you wish to reply to a group message,
that you need to login to your yahoo account via a internet browser to send a email back
to the group. What all this means is to send a message to this email group from an alternate
email account, that the alternate email address must be a member of this group as well.

You may also have discovered that there is a separate website and portal, for BHHS in general,
the BHHS_NSW_AU website has pages of common interest to ALL ex-students and staff  and has
its own portal and emailing list, which is open to ALL ex-students and staff.
You may subscribe to that emailing group if you wish to keep abreast of what other people
from other years are doing.