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UDFHG Illustrated Guide AFW
Edition 2
Sept 2012, Marion Hearfield
How to access the Upper Dales Family History Group’s Forum website
Marion Hearfield
Feb 2011, updated Sept 2012
Ways to access the dalesfhs online Forum website (dalesfhs@yahoogroups.com)
Remember: the Forum website is only available to full members
1) From an incoming Forum email
and
(links are offered in the margins and at the bottom of the email display)
If not Signed in, will see this
(all greyed out; no personal greeting):
click the Sign in link:
and sign in with your Yahoo ID and password
When Signed in, will see this
(all menus available; personal ID):
2) from your browser
key the following URL into your browser: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dalesfhs/
and you will see (you might have to Sign In first)
If you add the link to your Favourites/Bookmarks on your browser, it will be much quicker next time.
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the illustrations taken from the Yahoo screens were accurate at February 2011
UDFHG Illustrated Guide AFW
Edition 2
Sept 2012, Marion Hearfield
3) From the Yahoo home page: [http://uk.yahoo.com/ for me in the UK]
From the Yahoo website
click Groups
click dalesfhs
and here it is:
click My Yahoo,
Manage the option: Edit my Groups offers the following:
where you can change your Message Delivery method
4) by a Mailing-List-Only Member
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A Mailing-list-only member cannot access the Forum website.
The only way that a mailing-list-only member can communicate with the Yahoo Group is by sending
emails from her own mailbox. She can:
a. email dalesfhs-normal@yahoogroups.com to get Individual Emails (she gets an email to tell
her the change has been made).
b. email dalesfhs-digest@yahoogroups.com to get Daily Digest (she gets an email to tell her the
change has been made).
c. email dalesfhs-nomail@yahoogroups.com to stop all emails (she is asked to confirm this) then use one of the above to reinstate them.
d. email dalesfhs-unsubscribe@egroups.com to leave the group (she is asked to confirm this).
SEPT 2012: PLEASE BE WARNED
None of these email commands will be executed until you have confirmed your first request. So when you send
a command email to any of the four dalesfhs-xxx email addresses above, you will be sent a system-generated
email asking you to confirm it.
Your own email provider may well flag this incoming confirmation email as Spam or Junk so you will have to
go into your email filing system, find it, and click the necessary links embedded in it.
• When you do find the message please upgrade it to Not Spam, using your email provider’s usual method,
then complete the confirmation email and send it off.
• Users of gmail have to dig deep to find their spam folders, but until you have done, and found the incoming
message, nothing will happen.
Only after you have sent off that confirmation will your original request be activated.
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the illustrations taken from the Yahoo screens were accurate at February 2011