At 01:59 PM 07-12-00 +0100, you wrote:

>Jason Wharton wrote:
> >
> > > This is not the support list, please go to www.mers.com, join the
> > > Interbase Support List and then re-submitted you message to this list.
> >
> > If you want your support request to be viewed immediately, go to
> > IB-Support@... (same place as this list) and sign up. There are
> lots
> > of very knowledgeable people there and the list doesn't have the same
> > problems Mers.com has been having a lot of recently. Seems a lot of
> messages
> > there are either getting lost or taking hours to show up. I used to have my
> > list there but somehow it got killed and I had to fall back on my list at
> > eGroups. Ever since moving my community of about 500 people there I have
> > been hearing nothing but praise for how quick and reliable eGroups is. We
> > carry on virtual conversations at times, something we could never do on the
> > list at Mers.
> >
>
>How does one subscribe without going through the eGroups sign-in rigmarole?
>eGroups think cookies are a 'good thing' and want to set lots of them and send
>them to any server they fancy. I disagree with them. Last time I tried we
>couldn't reach a compromise so I gave up.

Until recently I set cookies off but it didn't affect my ability to use
egroups. It's the first I've heard of this - do you have a reference or
something I could read?

The easiest way to join an egroup is just to send an "empty" email to
listname-subscribe@egroups.com

It just happens automatically. But you will need to go to the site once
you are subscribed if you want to set options like "text-only messages", etc.

Helen

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