{"id":558,"date":"2023-01-29T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2023-01-29T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T10:03:29","slug":"the-trials-and-tribulations-of-trying-to-join-the-london-en-garde-yahoo-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/29\/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-trying-to-join-the-london-en-garde-yahoo-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Join the London en Garde! Yahoo Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/11\/2011<\/p>\n<p>by Charles Mosteller<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I decided, this morning, that I would try to join the Yahoo group for London en Garde! Oh, what a simple undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong! The problem, of course, lies with Yahoo, and not with that particular group on Yahoo. Being on a slow dial-up account to access the Internet with only exacerbates the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo likes to create a primary e-mail address for people who sign up for their discussion groups, and they like for it to be a Yahoo e-mail address. Except, I have no intention of using the new e-mail address in question.<\/p>\n<p>I go into the account settings to change it, and Yahoo further complicates things by requiring that I verify my alternate e-mail address that I listed, when I signed up, before I can make the change to use my alternate e-mail address as the contact address. Clicking the Verify Now button does nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course. Much time wasted trying to sort through Yahoo&#8217;s self-inflicted headache. I only wanted to check that discussion group out. They have it set up to not display messages in that group to non-members of the group. That&#8217;s not a Yahoo issue. That&#8217;s a group issue.<\/p>\n<p>And people wonder why more people don&#8217;t play their favored game of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/11\/2011 by Charles Mosteller &nbsp; I decided, this morning, that I would try to join the Yahoo group for London en Garde! Oh, what a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playbymail.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}