I've sent an invitation to 2 people to join our group but they are not receiving the invite - why?

Question

I know their email addresses are correct as I've mailed them personally, but when using the invite member facility through yahoo no message is received by either recipient - what's happening?

Answer 1

malfunction process.!

Answer 2

many ISP's see invites as spam, and block them.

if your group is closed, not much you can do but askif they have a different e-mail you could send it to

or otherwise if it's not a closed group, send the direct link of the homepage to them in your e-mail

Answer 3

To check if invite was actually 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 by your group owners/moderators.

If your 2 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.

Answer 4

Tell them to check their spam/bulk folder.