How to request membership to my group?

Question

Hi - is there a way for ppl to request membership to my group? Ideally, I'd like to be able to send out (and allow other members to send out) an adderess to the group where people can request to join my group.

Thanks in advance,

IS

Answer 1

I don't know what your management settings are-

management- under group settings click membership- Membership Type and Welcome Message (Edit) <-- click the edit-

* Open (anyone can join)

* Restricted (you approve all requests for membership) <-----

* Closed (only invited members can join) If you select this option, web tools that were previously set to "public" will be restricted to members only. Once you have selected this option, you may not change it later.

click save changes

if your group is set to closed- you wont be able to edit this page- you'll have to send invites, and this is a feature only for owners and a moderator priviledge. if your group is closed, members sending the group link wont work. it only appears to those who are members, and non members will see "group not found" when they click the link.

if you can set it to restricted membership, members sending links to others will work, and you as owner can also use the promote code to add to other sites

Answer 2

There is a "Join This Group" button on the upper right part of your group's home page.  People can click that to become a member.  There's an "Invite" link on the left side of group home page where the owner can invite people to join the group.

Members and you can send personal emails to people you know telling them about your group.  They should include the group's URL in the email so the people can click on it to get to your home page. Then they can click the Join This Group button.  To see what the URL is, go to your group's home page and look at the top your internet browser.  You will see http:// with other info after that.  That is your group's web address.

Don't send personal emails to strangers to tell them about your group - that is called spamming and is against Yahoo TOS and Group Guidelines and can get your account suspended and group deleted..

Answer 3

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.)

To subscribe to a group's mailing list via email, send a blank email to:

groupname-subscribe@yahoogroup...

Make sure to replace "groupname" with the actual name of the group (e.g., pastry_chefs-subscribe@yahoogr...

When you get the confirmation message, just reply to it…and your subscription will be complete!

Respond to an invitation to join:

If someone sent you an email invitation to join a group (and you’d like to join), click Join this group!