If, like me, you don’t have a Gmail id (shock horror!) it can be a pain trying to figure out how to join a Google Group (( I know you can have a Google id that is NOT a Gmail id, but let’s leave that out for now. )) . Some groups (like the Django ones) do have web pages with a sign-up form, but most don’t. So how do you join those groups without going through all the Google id related shenanigans? Simple – type this in your address bar (and remember to press enter!):
http://groups.google.com/group/GroupName/boxsubscribe?email=emailid
Replace GroupName with the name of the group you want to join and emailid with your email id. In case you didn’t make any typos, you’ll find Google telling you that “a confirmation message has been sent” to your id. Just click on the link in that email and you are good to go.
[tags]Google, Google Groups[/tags]
Good post!
Billant solution for a terribly annoying problem.
Thanks.
This works perfect!
Thanks for such an easy solution…. 🙂
Cheers
Mario
need the id
Works like a charm. Thank you for this tip.
how do get to view pages or upload documents as a member to this group?
it doesn’t work in Opera.
any idea?
Thank you very much! Long life to email! the last and stronger survivor of centralized social networks