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STEP 4 Email Addresses.

On the right-hand side of the screen is your current Email Addresses information. It will show the information associated with your Yahoo!' ID from your current Yahoo! Account Information. The area is divided into three sections: "Available for Subscription," "Not currently available for Subscription," and "Alternate Posting Addresses."

Available for Subscription. This address is the main one to be associated with your ID. It is the one that would show in your profile, in group listings, etc. It is the one Group Owners/Moderators would use to subscribe you to their group or send you an invitation to subscribe. In your Yahoo! Account Information, it is listed as the Primary. Make sure the address shown is correct and is one you want publiclly shown. The word "Normal" should appear next to the address as well as a bounce history. If you see the words "Not Verified" next to this address, or no address listed at all, go to Step 5. 

Not currently available for Subscription. The address or addresses in this area are those included in your account information as secondary or alternative. These are addresses Yahoo! may use if there is a problem with delivery to your primary account. While you should verify that these addresses are correct, their appropriate status should be "not converted." Converting an address moves it from the "not currently available for Subscription" status to "Available for Subscription." If you would like to correct or convert one of the addresses appearing in this area or add an address, go to Step 5.

Alternate Posting Addresses. If you use an anonymous e-mail address, Yahoo! Mail as a drop through to an IP account for example, and plan to use the e-mail features of the club at all, you may wish to enter your IP address as one which may post to the group message board. You may add or correct an Alternate Posting Address in Step 5.


STEP 5 Click the Edit button next to Email Addresses.

Verifying Your Account.

If you have an address showing as "Not Verified," which you wish to use as your group account address, click the link [ Verify ] next to the address. You will be taken to a page offering you further instructions.

The page references an e-mail it will send you. In the e-mail, you will be offered two choices in continuing the verification. The easiest is the first option, click the REPLY button which will generate an e-mail form with all the pertinent data already in place and then click the SEND button. Just like that your address has been verified and is now listed as "Normal."

Removing An Account

You may not want to publicly list the address Yahoo! offers as your groups account address and thus want to Remove it from the "Available for Subscription" designation. Too, e-mail accounts linked to a specific ID (converted) are not available for use by other accounts you may have. You may remove the address from available designation simply by clicking the Remove link. The address to be removed will immediately move to the "Not currently available for Subscription" listing with the flash notation that it is now available to be used with other IDs.

Converting Your Account

If you would like to use additional e-mail accounts or a different e-mail address from among those listed as "Not currently available for Subscription," you may convert the address by clicking the Convert link on the extreme right-hand side of the page. It will take you to a page which requests the input of a 5-digit authorization code number which you will receive in e-mail.

Go to your e-mail and retrieve this number. Click the link in the e-mail or return to this page and enter the number. It will take you to the page confirming that your account has successfully converted.

Converting An Address Not Shown

If you have an e-mail address not currently listed in your Yahoo! Account Information, which you would like to use, clicking this link will take you to a page where you may enter a new address and your regular account password for immediate conversion of the address to "Available for Subscription." 

Alternative Posting Addresses *

You are allowed up to five "Available for Subscription" addresses. Under the Advanced Options, each of those five addresses are similarly allowed five Alternate Posting Addresses. Perhaps, you want to be able to respond to e-mailed posts from work, from your friend's house, from your grandmother's, from the Internet Cafe down the street, from the public library, from school. Linking the separate addresses you may use to receive e-mail from these sources allows you to reply to messages you can otherwise only view. We caution that these alternative addresses can only be used to respond in e-mail at present and will not be linked to allow interface posts, however, it could be quite useful to have these alternate addresses listed in your account information.

* = best guess at function.  No information is available from Yahoo!.

While this may seem a rather complicated process, it really is only five little steps to preparing yourself and your account for the day when clubs will become groups. The change, we feel, will offer us something new and better. We're looking forward to it.

Again, if you have any difficulties or questions, please contact us: 
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