Do you have to have a Yahoo email address in order to join a Yahoo group??

Question

I created a Yahoo group and I noticed that only the people that have yahoo email addresses have joined. Are the people that I invited required to create a yahoo email account before they join?

Answer 1

Yes, if they want access to the web features they have to have a Yahoo account.  If they just want to subscribe to the mailing list, they don't need a Yahoo account.

Answer 2

You need a Yahoo! account but you don't have to use your Yahoo! email address if you have an alternate email address listed with your Yahoo! account.

Answer 3

How do I join a group?

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/...

How could I join a group without getting access to its web features? How do I prevent this from occurring in the future?

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/...

any e-mail address can subscribe to the groups subscribe address however w/o the yahoo account, you wont have access to group feautres.

if you have a yahoo account, you can add another e-mail address

go to this link- http://groups.yahoo.com/myprefs click add email address on top left- follow steps and confirm address.

then go to this link http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups click edit my groups on the top left- locate group (if there's more than one) under the column Email Address click the arrow for the drop down box and select new address- click save changes

you can give thoe instructions to your members are save it in case a member ever asks you how to add an addy