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Yahoo! Groups is an electronic mailing list service provided by Yahoo!. Over the years, Yahoo! bought several other mailing list providers, including the popular eGroups, and combined them with Yahoo! Clubs into one system. Thus, Yahoo! Groups is now by far the most popular and well-known provider of electronic mailing list facilities. Its main competitor is Google Groups.
The category tree of topics in which the groups are sorted is borrowed largely from Yahoo!'s own directory hierarchy, however some subcategories in Yahoo! Directory such as music are so popular in Yahoo! Groups that they have their own top-level category.
As well as providing e-mail relaying and archiving facilities for the many lists it hosts, the Yahoo! Groups service provides additional functions on the web site, such as voting and calendar systems, file uploading, easy management and more. This has helped persuade many large users to continue using the service, since these "value added" elements would be harder to provide on their own servers. However, while the basic mailing list functionality can be used with any e-mail address, the additional features require using a Yahoo! ID for logging on to the web site.
Yahoo! Groups operate as both electronic mailing lists and internet forums. Group messages can be posted and read by e-mail or on the group homepage, like a forum. Members can choose whether to receive individual e-mails, daily digest e-mails, or to just read the posts on the web page. Some groups are just announcement lists to which only the group moderators can post, while others are discussion lists.
Feature list
- Web Tools selectable for Off, Admin, Members, Public (not all tools).
- BBS: Post by form or member email account. Distributed by selectable option to the members, and archieved in the group archiv.
No edit function except delete. - Photo album (30MB): Organized into album/thumbnail structure.
- File storage (20MB): Capable of storing html, png and other formats.
- Link directory: Options for folders, text labels for each link.
- Poll: Members can created multiple-choice polls, including various options for ID display.
- Memberlist: Scroll of registered member profiles, and the basics of the information they provide.
- Calendar: Scheduling system for clubs with regular events.
- Promote: HTML box for website display (to join a group).
- BBS: Post by form or member email account. Distributed by selectable option to the members, and archieved in the group archiv.
- Administration Owner/Managers (who can do post approval)
- Invite: to invite more members by email.
- Management of members (approve new members, delete members).
- Options: Edit of the group homepage display text etc.
- Post/Picture approval: It is possible to switch to strict moderation if required.
- Web tools management: Options are Off, Public, Members, Administrators.
As of Spring 2006, Yahoo! has discontinued the chat feature in Yahoo! Groups.
Registration
New users are required to register with Yahoo! Groups for membership and can join groups with approval by the group moderator. A group receives a web address and an e-mail address when it is created, and can be listed in one of the Yahoo! group directory categories if desired. It is also possible to switch on an "adult content" warning, which must be agreed to each time a member visits the group page.
See also
External links
"Yahoo! Groups"