[Ham-Computers] Problems when Posting to Yahoo Groups

[Jim Hill]

Robert (and others):  Thanks for your responses.  It's obviously just 
me and not a general problem.
I just switched to win7 (guess I'm one of the last XP holdouts).  I 
have been tinkering around, and think I have pretty much solved the 
problem.  I use Eudora for emails, and had problems getting it 
running properly on Win 7.  Others found the change relatively easy, 
so I'm guessing it is my computer.  It is a refurbished Dell T3500 I 
purchased on eBay, and maybe there are some settings that cause conflicts.

I sent a few test posts with good results.  The only real holdout is 
the Yahoo eudorawin group, which has some Eudora experts I would like 
to contact.  I can receive posts, but none of my posts appear on the group.

I did find a forum for Yahoo  https://answers.yahoo.com  it is 
strange, in that you don't immediately see questions and 
answers.  https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?sid=396546285 works better.

Jim



At 09:29 AM 6/2/2014, you wrote:
>Jim,
>
>I'm a member of several Yahoo Groups, radio and non-radio.  In the
>reflector mode, the only serious problems I recall being reported 
>have revolved
>around the difficulty in figuring out who the message originator 
>is.  Prior to
>the most recent change (which reputedly was prompted by hacker or spammer
>activity), all messages from the reflector showed the sender in the in-box
>listing of most mail managers, including Outlook 2000, 2002 and 
>2007, Compuserve
>7 and AOL 9 (I think it's 9).  Since the change, only the Yahoo Group
>address shows as From:.  What shows in Reply To: varies with mail manager and
>with how the Group is set up, worst case being when the Group is set to Reply
>To Members.  I currently use Compuserve 7 for most, and as of this morning,
>the senders email address only shows inside the message, near the bottom.  If
>the Group is set to Reply To Members, Reply All no longer also sends to
>Sender, it sends two copies to the reflector.
>
>I can't comment on what's currently happening if you log in and run it in
>Bulletin Board mode, except to say from a recipient standpoint that it seems
>no worse than it has always been.  If there was an ON-OFF switch, I would
>turn it OFF.
>
>Having said all that, what mail manager are you using and do you receive
>messages locally or are you using some variety of Web Mail?  Also, 
>do you know
>for certain that the problem isn't simply that your status is Moderated?
>Some (maybe most) Groups moderate all new members.
>
>Robert Downs - Houston
>wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
>MVPA 9480
>
>In a message dated 06/02/2014 01:08:14 AM Central Daylight Time,
>hro5-2 at cox.net writes:
> > I'm having almost no luck when attempting to post in Yahoo Group
> > forums. I go to the appropriate group, compose, click Send, and am
> > immediately returned to the list of conversations.  No problem there,
> > except that I never see my message.  I have attempted emails - still
> > unsuccessful.
> >
> > I have looked for Yahoo group support forums, but cannot find any.
> >
> > A few moments ago, I set up a new Yahoo account, signed up for a
> > group, and attempted to send a message, still unsuccessful.
> >
> > Yahoo did make another change for the worst.  When receiving messages
> > from a group, only a Yahoo mail address can be specified.  I'm
> > guessing this change started on June 1.
> >
> > I just checked, and a test message made it on ARC-5Radio group, which
> > I joined on 5-31.  Important posts have not been successful.
> >
> > What is your success rate?
> > Jim
> >
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