From Jim Moy <jimmoy@outlook.com>
That's how they can process your confirmation reply with no other input from you. If you just hit reply, and your mailer is not set to auto-quote the original message, the body may be blank. In which case, if you happen to leave the subject as-is, they have a number they can look up in their list of pending subscriptions, and verify you really do own the email address for which the request was made.
Jim
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:42:55 -0800
From: lclgcnp@yahoo.com
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Illustrated Guide to Google Group signup
What's with all the goofy letters and such after "join request for pianotech"?
Thumpe
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Re: [pianotech] Illustrated Guide to Google Group signup
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Tue, Feb 26, 2013 3:23:39 AM
Ok, how about this?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11EBGFtSazReAIaPvmtQwmuBGI6FbeZvIpmsx_cy5isU/edit?usp=sharing
I read your posts, John! We met at the 2008 National in Anaheim, at one of Don Manino's presentations, and then later at the pianotech-offline meeting.
Jim
From: jrpiano@bellaliant.net
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:07:27 -0400
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Illustrated Guide to Google Group signup
Unfortunately,None of the images showed on my Mac.Luckily though, I have been successful in joining the gmail+ pianotech list.I have said in the past that the
pianotech list was not given the recognition it deserved, but I don't remember anyone making a comment, when I said it.Oh well, maybe my name was one of the ones that people never bothered reading. LOLJohn RossWindsor, Nova Scotia
On 2013-02-25, at 10:37 PM, Jim Moy <jimmoy@outlook.com> wrote:On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Dean May <deanmay@pianorebuilders.com> wrote:
>
> It might be helpful to others if you would post the steps you had to take
>
Here is an illustrated guide to joining the pianotech Google Group, using a non-Gmail email account:
Bring up the email program you want to use, and compose an email to pianotech+subscribe@ googlegroups.com, like this:
And then hit Send. Note there is no subject or body in the email. These are not required, though if you put something there, I believe
they will be ignored. They go by the senders email address, which is automatically included with the message, and that's all they need.
Then wait for a reply:
It might take a few minutes, or you might get it right away, depends how busy they are. When I open the message, it looks like this:
They said they heard me, and I should do one of the two things. I chose to reply to the email,
so I clicked the Reply button:
Then I hit Send.
No modifications to the default reply my email program had put together, I didn't clean up anything. I just hit Reply, then hit Send. I could've clicked that button, "Join This Group" but that would be too easy.
Shortly afterwards, I received a confirmation that I was now subscribed to the email list. One of the things it'll say is you can now you can send emails to pianotech@googlegroups.com.
That is
all!
Jim