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Yahoo! Hacks
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Yahoo! Hacks

by Paul Bausch
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Discuss, Share, and Collaborate with Others

Use Yahoo! Groups to set up a space to share information via email and on the Web.

The Web is redefining how groups of people can work together to achieve a common goal. At one time, forming collaborative relationships meant meeting in the same physical location. By collaborating online, people across the globe can come together to work on a project, exchange information, or simply chat. A family that’s distributed across the country can share photos and stories, or a local club can plan meeting times.

Yahoo! Groups is a space that facilitates these kinds of relationships, and at its most basic, Yahoo! Groups provides an easy way to create a mailing list. A mailing list is simply a way to send an email to a number of specified email addresses. Some mailing lists are one-way, meaning the list owner sends email to everyone on the list but members don’t communicate between each other; these are called announcement or distribution lists. A two-way list is called a discussion list and allows any of its members to send an email to the list; everyone on the list will receive the message. A Yahoo! Group can have either type of mailing list, but Yahoo! Groups are most often thought of as a place for discussion.

Group Features

In addition to its mailing list, every Yahoo! Group has its own group site. Here are the features you’ll find at a Yahoo! Groups site:

Messages

Every message sent to the group via email is archived at the group site, where members ...

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