last time I joined a yahoogroup I just did it via email to group-subscribe at yahoogroups.com On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:48:34AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Maybe this has been going on for months; I haven't tried to join a group > at Yahoo for a while; I'd avoid them completely if i could. > However, there was a group I really wanted to join and just tried to do > so. they now have a word that you have to copy into a box to verify your > registration for a group and they have a place you are supposed to "click" > if you are visually impaired to get a customer care person to "help" you. > I clicked this in lynx and got 'unsupported url scheme!" (now why should > that surprise me?!) I did the same in > links and was given an url--not a link mind you but an url--that I'm > supposed to paste into my browser to request help. and I'm supposed to > provide my phone number as well as my email address in order to get this > "help". can they really legally make me jump through these hoops? Has > anybody found a way around this or gone through their little process; if > so, did you really get help? I resent being asked to give out my phone > number just because I'm blind!!! > Thanks. > > -- > Cheryl > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
