President's Notes (09/10)
President's Message
The Yahoo Forum...
Join Now!
by Phil Sorrentino
Member of the Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc.
If you are already a member of the Yahoo Group, you are
more than aware of the benefits of membership. Membership in the Yahoo Group is a really good example of Members Helping Members.
It’s amazing how many technical and not-so-technical questions are answered
in any given month. For any of you who are not part of the Yahoo Group, you
can join just by going to our Website and clicking on the "Yahoo Group Join
Now" button on the right. Once you are a member, you will receive an email
for each of the questions that are asked by another member. And even better,
you will receive an email for the answers, as they are answered by other
members. And if you have an answer to a question, you can reply to the group
with your answer (which will in turn be sent to all group members). This is
a really slick way of getting and providing help on all sorts of computer
topics. The only thing better may be having a Computer Guru living in your
home.
The Yahoo Group is a moderated group, meaning that a
moderator (an SPCUG member) allows or disallows posts (messages) to be sent
to the Group, so that only posts that are in the interest of the Group get
sent to all of the members. All Yahoo Group members can send posts to the
group (via the moderator), and all members receive all of the posts that are
allowed by the moderator. Guidelines for acceptability are set by the SPCUG
Board of Directors, and implemented by the moderator. The moderator’s job is
to assure that commercial advertisements or objectionable comments, those
not in line with the Group’s purpose, are not sent to the members.
The Yahoo Group is like a huge computer information database. There are
many Group members who have many years of experience in the computer field
and are very generous with their information, in the form of answers to
questions. The many answers to the very diverse questions sort of form a
distributed database among the members of the group. I’m not sure that there
is any other place you could get, or even buy, the quantity and/or quality
of computer related information available through the SPCUG Yahoo Group. If
you are a member, glad to have you aboard, if you’re not yet a member –join
and start taking advantage of this wonderful resource. And who knows, you
may be able to help someone out with your answer to a future Yahoo Group
post.
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Copyright 2009. This article is from the October 2009 issue of the
Sarasota PC Monitor, the official monthly publication of the Sarasota
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