Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Messenger
The following, explanation of what
Our Related Yahoo
Group .... "is" and what benefits and features are available
by becoming a Yahoo member, and joining our Citadel Class of
'67 Yahoo Group - is posted on our Class Web Site to better inform,
and encourage. classmates to become a Yahoo Member, join our class of '67
Yahoo Group, and hopefully, also download and install the Yahoo Messenger
Service. I have used Various "Chat" services over the past 10+ years
(MIRC, ICQ, and Yahoo) with no adverse effects (knock wood) and have
found them to be very usefull and excellent "tools" to stay in touch, in
"real time" with people all over the world.
For the past 6+ years I've used Yahoo and Yahoo Groups almost exclusively.
Rick
The general group membership does not see
the emails to the "Group Owner" with the comments contained in their request
to join.
Group Membership IS moderated. Approval to join is LIMITED only to
members of The Citadel's Class of '67 and their family members (upon supplying
sufficient information to the Group Owner or Moderator that they are, in fact,
family members of one of our classmates).
However, once an individual is a group member
- they have full access to the following Group features:
First, the right to set up your own
delivery schedule for group messages posted, or generated from postings,
to Group Features other than "messages"... i.e. to receive messages as
individual emails, as a "daily digest", receive only "Special
Notices" (posted by the Group Owner or Moderators), or to receive no email
& but read and access what has been posted online)
Group Members have posting privileges and full access to the following
Group Features:
MESSAGES - post to a growing archive
of past messages and have full searchable access to this archive
FILES - post and share virtually any file "type" that you're
capable of producing e.g. MS Word Documents, PDF Documents, Power Point
Presentations, video clips/movies in various formats, etc
PHOTOS - post and share photos. Set
up your own "Folders" to contain your photos or add photos to an appropriate
existing "folder" (provided the "folder creator/folder owner" has set it
up as one that Group Members may add photo's in)
LINKS - post and share Links which may be
usefull or of interest to our classmates
DATABASE - create and share "simple" databases
POLLS - Create and share Polls with our classmates
... the poll creator can leave the poll as an "open poll" or put an end
date on the poll ... they also control how and when results of the poll
may be seen by the members i.e. as a "live" poll once a members has participated
in that poll or when the poll closes... and wether the poll results are
available in a summary form only or complete with the "names/yahoo id's"
of the participants.
MEMBERS - view a full list of group members
along with "clickable links" to their yahoo profile and their "yahoo sign
up/preferred" email address
(I've
frequently found that Group Members frequently leave "nothing" but
their Yahoo ID in their Yahoo "profile" which kind of defeats the purpose
here.
But you CAN set you profile to NOT be searchable, include your identifying
information, and it will ONLY be available within the Group
Membership's
MEMBERS listing.)
CALENDAR - view a fully featured planning
calendar with the right to post events or tasks and control the delivery
timing of reminder notices of upcoming calendar events or tasks.... views
available in the following forms - by day, by week, by month, by year,
by event, or by task.
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Group Members so far - 04/09/07
Rick Langdon (Owner/Webmaster)
- Feb 14th
Jay Keenan - Feb 15th
Skip Atkinson - Feb 24th
Don Beers - Mar 1st
Tim McMahon (OJ's son) - Mar
4th
Bert Patrick - Mar 14th
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YAHOO MESSENGER -
This is a fully featured "Chat Application"
with text chat, video chat, and conferencing capability. You can use
it to make PC to PC individual or conference calls worldwide - free and
even make PC to Telephone calls (to land or mobile lines) or send SMS text
messages to mobile devices at low worldwide rates.
With messenger, you control your own "contact
list" and the grouping of your contacts. For example, from our groups
members list you might want to request from a member (or all of our MEMBER
classmates) thier permission for you to add them to your own personal
"contact list". From your own contact list you could then send messages
to them and, depending on their own online status setting, see at a glance
if they were currently online. If they are on line the message is
delivered "instantly", if not - it's held and delivered the next time that
member signs on to the Messenger service.