How do you select a group to join?
There are various ways. First of all, you should find a topic that is of importance to you. You should see groups in this series are for the most part not chat groups. You might find a professional interest or a personal interest in advancing your knowledge or in helping others in that field as an expert. Select a topic and find the group that is closest to that topic, keeping in mind that these are all Jewish groups.
You may also want to consider the number of postings to any given group. You may want to join a group that is very active or a group that is less active that doesn't fill up your email box. In general it must be said that the groups in this series have a limited number of postings so in general you don't have to worry about them filling up your email box.
You can tell how many postings the group has had even if you are not a subscriber by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/GROUPNAME. Substitute for the GROUPNAME the name of the group that you want to join and it will show you the topics and the dates of the recent postings. That should help you make a decision. That same web page will also give you a brief summary of the group. If you want a more advanced summary look through the group description in this website, Our Jewish Groups, in which you will have all of the information that you would need to decide whether to join.
But more likely what you can do is not to worry that much. Just join. See if it's for you. Unsubscribing from the group is so easy that it doesn't necessarily pay to worry about it a lot. If you don't like it, you can unsubscribe and there's no problem.
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