How to help people join my yahoo group, (political banter}?

Question

I formed a Yahoo group, added the email addresses of those invited, thought I followed directions for this, but got zero responses. Asked family members, they say they were unable to join group secondary to lack of instructions or knowledge of how to join. What can I tell them to make it easy, or maybe I didn't set it up properly? I appreciate any help.

Answer 1

To check if invites were successfully sent:

Click Management. Under Group Activity, click Memberships. In the Search logs field near top of page, type in the word invite . This will pull up a list of all invites sent.

If your invitations do not appear on the above list, you might not have completed the very last step of inviting people. It is Item #5 of the following steps:

1. Click Members in the list on the left side of any page.

2. In the upper right, click Invite People.

3. In the first box, enter the email addresses or Yahoo! IDs of the people you want to invite to your group, one per line. In the second box, write the text of the invitation you want them to see.

4. Click Submit Invite.

5. Preview your invite. If you'd like to edit it, click Edit.

If you'd like to send it, click Invite People.

NOTE: If you do not continue on through #5 and click Invite People, the invite will not be sent.

Another thing could prevent your invites from being received is if they have set their Yahoo Account to not receive invites from group owners. They would have to change that setting if they want to receive your invites.