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       HOW TO LINK YOUR EMAIL ADDY TO YOUR YAHOO! ID.
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STEP 1 Log In.

If you are not presently logged in to your regular Yahoo! ID, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com This page should look familiar to you as it is very similar to the one you use with Yahoo! Clubs presently. Enter your Yahoo! ID name and password in the appropriate spaces and click 
the "Sign In!" radio button.

If you are already logged in, you will see various options on the welcome line to the right of your ID name, including: "Start a Group - My Groups - My Preferences - Sign Out." Click "My Preferences" or go to step 2.


STEP 2 Go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/myprefs

This page operates very much like http://edit.yahoo.com page of your Yahoo! Account Information section although it includes some variables not present there while omitting others. The page is divided into two sections which you may edit according your personal needs and wishes.

To the left are the General Preferences, which govern some of the aspects of how you can be contacted, how your e-mail will handle messages, and how you will view messages on the webpage interface. While you may edit these at any time by returning to this page or to the delivery options of specific groups, take a minute and set some of these now in Step 3. E-mail conversion will be discussed in Step 4.


STEP 3 Click the Edit button next to General Preferences.

General Preferences:

  A. Invitation

     The present (or default) settings allow for the owner or moderator 
     of any group to add your subscription to his group without your 
     permission and/or to send you invitations to join his group. In 
     order to retain membership in your current clubs at conversion, 
     you may have to leave these options at default (unchanged) for
     now. If not, you may be required to re-join all your current clubs
     (we suspect they may use this feature to facilitate movement of
     members from clubs to groups). However, once the introduction of
     the interface has occurred, you may wish to change these options
     so that you do not find yourself joined to unwanted groups or
     receiving unwanted solicitations to subscribe. Keep that in mind
     concerning this feature.

   B. HTML E-Mail Conversion

     Most e-mail software allows you to preset preferences concerning 
     whether you will receive e-mail in plain text format (Mime
     -compliant) or in HTML format, which frequently adds more bells
     and whistles to the display but often takes more precious mailbox
     room as well. Most online e-mail hosts such as Yahoo! Mail and
     Hotmail are already in HTML format. While Yahoo! equates this
     option with the idea of how much advertising they can tack onto a
     message, you should be aware that your individual e-mail software
     preferences will override this option. That is: if you cannot
     accept any but plain text or have chosen only to receive plain
     text, you will not get HTML format e-mail. Often times, too, it is
     not a matter of what you can or want to receive, it is a matter of
     what format is available to the sender.

     Your options are to convert everything to HTML, or to leave the 
     format alone. We recommend you choose the latter.

  C. Timezone

     The date/time stamp on messages and e-mail can be left to default
     or can be set relative to the time zone where you live. You can
     also set the time zone relative to those with whom you regularly
     interact. The default is what is set as the group date/time stamp.

  D. Page Display

        a. Expanded View

	     You can view messages one by one by clicking on the
           individual entry in a message list, as you can in clubs, or
           you can "expand" the view and read several messages on the
           same page at one time. This option allows you to select the
           number of messages that will appear in the expanded view:
           10, 15 (default), or 20 pages.


        b. Web Pages Display

           When you click messages in Yahoo! clubs, you see a listing
           of forty messages. You don't get a choice of how many are
           displayed. In Groups, however, you have an option of viewing
           the message list information with 15, 25, 30 (default), or
           50 messages per screen (less clicking, more down screen
           scrolling).

Once you have chosen the options you desire in General Preferences, return to My Preferences.


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