Why can't I use my webmaster or admin address to subscribe to a group?

Question

I manage several Yahoo! Groups with separate web sites and want to address the groups as the webmaster or admin of the site. Yahoo!, however, won;t let me subscribe to my groups as "[e-mail]" or "[e-mail]". Why not?

- John

Answer 1

Yahoo will not allow you to choose so-called "role" names as your Yahoo ID due to the possibility of abuse of power these IDs might encourage.

I do wish that Yahoo would consider allowing group owners and moderators to protect their personal email addresses when performing moderator functions.

Find a name that you can live with, that will be acceptable to Yahoo.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Yahoo wants you to use thier services which in turn makes you see thier product advertisements . If you had Yahoo mail plus which is like 20 something a year it would allow you to forward from a yahoo mail to anywhere you wish .