YahooGroupedia

A free collection of reference material about Yahoo! Groups, with aspirations of becoming encyclopedic.

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Hot Topics

• Yahoo Groups "neo" - 2013
• Disability Access to Neo

FAQs

• What is a Yahoo! Group?
• How do I join a Yahoo! Group?
• How do I get help? (please write me)
• Do you need a Yahoo Account? [Please write me]
• Keeping your Yahoo Account secure [Please write me]
• Glossary
• Have two or more Accounts [Please write me]
• Use two or more browsers [Please write me]

Member Management

• Troll-proof your group
• Export the Member list - a Chrome application
• Export the Member list - Prototype scripts (in zip format) for exporting a complete list to a CSV file.
• Uses an API call to bypass the 1000 record export limitation.
• These require node.js, a "cookies.txt" for a group moderator, and the "wget" program.
• They have been tested in Windows 7 and with Cygwin for Windows.
• A documentation file, "Doc.txt" has been included.
• NEO bouncing problems 

Messages

• Export - a Chrome application
• Reject a pending message, with cc to the other moderators
• Blogs Posting Group Messages

Info/About page

• How to create an image link to your web site
• How to post a Bigger Home Page Photo

 
Other Features

• Use Attachment storage to augment Files storage beyond 100 MB [Please write me]

How Yahoo! Groups works

• A Beginner's Guide
• Annotated screen shots of Yahoo Groups pages.
• Message Moderation
• Group Settings
• Changes to Fully Featured Digest

Suggestions and Bugs

• Recently Updated Suggestions

Old Articles

• User text escaping flaws - 2013
• The New Yahoo Groups Calendar -- 2012 
• Decoding the members list as exported by Neo
• How to make a Modified Group Join Button (classic)
  
• The Pinboard [ feature removed Nov 4th 2014 ]