Do you have to to have a Yahoo ID to belong to a Yahoo group?

Question

My company wants to start a Yahoo Group as a Place for all the franchisees to communicate. Not all of them have Yahoo ID's. Do they have to get one in order to join the group? Or can outsiders join?

Answer 1

it depends on group settings as to outsiders joining.

How do I join a group?

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

Join via the group’s page:

Once you’ve located a group to join (at groups.yahoo.com, you can browse the Groups directory or search for a group by topic), click Join This Group in the upper-right corner of the group’s page.

Haven’t signed in yet? You’ll be asked to enter your Yahoo! ID. If you don’t have one, register by clicking Sign Up at the top of the page.

Set your membership preferences. Choose a profile you'd like to display to the group, select the email address at which you'd like to receive group messages, choose how you receive group messages, and more.

Join the mailing list only:

Yahoo! Groups recommends that you join a group via the group’s page (above). But if you want, you can simply sign up for the mailing list for the group. When you’re only on the mailing list, you don’t get access to all the group's web features (Photos, Files, Links, Polls, Calendar.)

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Answer 2

They can subscribe to the mailing list without a Yahoo ID, but they cannot log in to the group page or use any of the features without one.