North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["Greg Miller" <gsmiller@cet.com>]

I want to reassure group members that email addresses from this  list have never been forwarded to any recipient.  I don't believe  that regular members of the list have access to the list of group  members; I do as the list administrator, so I can't say what  information is available to others.  

However, everytime you post a message to this list is DOES  display your email address in the message headers.  Someone  could potentially harvest email addresses by joining the group and  waiting for messages to come, but this is probably fairly low yield  to someone interested in obtaining a large volume of email  addresses.

The reason you are receiving the confirmations is part of the  protection this service (and several others like it) provides by ensuring that  you have to confirm your membership to start receiving list messages.  This  sounds like what is happening to you, in which case just ignore the invitation  for groups you don't wish to join. 

If you were added against your wishes, Yahoo states:

If you feel you were added against your wishes, or would like  to report an abuse of our service, such as a spam message,  please {HYPERLINK "http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/groups/cgi_abuse"}contact us. Yahoo! Groups makes every attempt to  prevent moderators from sending unsolicited email.
This is not an email address per se, but a web form.  You can access that at 
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/groups/cgi_abuse
If for some reason you CAN'T get it to work, send the information to me and I  will do my best to forward the particulars, although first hand information  (having YOU do it) is always preferred.

It used to be possible to directly add people to the list (egroups and onelist)  but I can't find that option on Yahoo, so don't if that is still possible.  In any  event, if you think there is abuse, report it.

Greg


On 14 Jun 2001, at 10:17, victoria l. caron wrote:

> Hi,
> Is anyone else in the group receiving the news that they have been
> added to other yahoo egroups? From what they say, I have to send the
> original email whether I want to subscribe or unsubscribe. This seems
> contrary to the problem some folks have of joining our egroup even
> when they want to. Is anyone else receiving membership solicitations
> to other yahoo groups?
> 
> vic NH zone 3
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