6-8 emails for same contact (Yahoo groups)

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Lurfys Maw

I would like help figuring out the best way to set up contacts for
Yahoo Groups.

Yahoo Groups allows almost all group interaction to be done by email.
For each group, 8 different email addresses are defined. They are:

[email protected] Join
[email protected] Subscribe
[email protected] Post a message
[email protected] Email owner
[email protected] Hold messages
[email protected] Daily digest mode
[email protected] Normal mode
[email protected] Help

For more information, see

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/email/email-01.html

I started out by setting up a contact for each group. I entered the
three email addresses above that I use most. But I really need more
than three. I came up with two solutions, b ut I really don't like
either one:

1. Define a separate contact for each email address. This allows me to
put something descriptive in the "Display as" field, but I have to
replicate all of the group information in every contact. Or I could
put all of the contact information in the main contact and just put a
comment in the others pointing to the main one. I don't like having 8
contacts for each group.

2. Define 3 contacts and put 3 emails addresses in each one. This is
only slightly better than #1

Is there a way to define 8 emails addresses for one contact?

Is there a complete different way to habdle this?
 
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Brian Tillman

Lurfys Maw said:
I would like help figuring out the best way to set up contacts for
Yahoo Groups.

Yahoo Groups allows almost all group interaction to be done by email.
For each group, 8 different email addresses are defined. They are:
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Since it is so rare to use the mode-changing addresses, the Help address,
and the subscription-status addresses, why store them? They're easy enough
to remember and the functions they represent are better done online. That
leaves only the posting and owner addresses to store. My personal
preference is to handle most groups on line (i.e., completely through a web
browser), with the exception those groups that allow binary posts but don't
store attachments, in which case it's necessary to read the group via mail,
since the attachments aren't avaialble any other way.
 
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Lurfys Maw

Since it is so rare to use the mode-changing addresses, the Help address,
and the subscription-status addresses, why store them? They're easy enough
to remember and the functions they represent are better done online. That
leaves only the posting and owner addresses to store. My personal
preference is to handle most groups on line (i.e., completely through a web
browser), with the exception those groups that allow binary posts but don't
store attachments, in which case it's necessary to read the group via mail,
since the attachments aren't avaialble any other way.
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I guess you and I work differently. If you know of a way to enter 8
email addresses without entering multiple contacts, I would like to
hear about it.

I wish Yahoo permitted, perhaps as an alternate method, to put the
"command" in the subject line and use one email for everything.
 
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