Steve's Yahoo Username Blues . . .

[Tim Regan]

Hi Steve (& All),

Oh dear, I do feel for you on this. It's a very sobering tale of how 
unreliable Yahoomort can be. It is also worrying that it's happened 
so often to you, and very very worrying that it happened to paid 
accounts too. It's a shame we don't have anyone `on the inside'. If 
I ever do meet anyone who works for Yahoo Groups I'll do my best to 
convert them to HP adult fandom.

Steve wrote:
>>> I always post in the Web version of the group because I really 
don't like my computer cluttered up by thousands of emails. That 
means that I didn't archive any of the posts I made <<<

There are archives of posts so don't give up hope of your favourite 
essays resurfacing.

I'm also confused by your reasoning here. I think (though I may well 
be wrong) that one can set one's membership to "Special notices" 
or "No email", thus receive no or few email from the list, use the 
web view for reading the list, and still post from an email client 
using the email address in your membership profile. That way you'd 
not clutter your mail tool's inbox, but you would be keeping your 
own copy of the emails you send to the list. What you'd loose is 
some threading, since Yahoo would not realize that some of your 
posts were replies, but that may be a small price to pay.

At least, that's how I think it works.

Cheers,

Dumbledad.