Create a Yahoo Group to support a community of common interest

This assignment gives you practice creating a Yahoo Group and reinforces the idea of an online community.

A Yahoo Group is a tool to support a community of common interest. The most important step in this assignment is thinking about the community you wish to support. Is it a few friends with a common interest, people taking a class, friends from the gym, you and your brothers and sisters, etc.? (The most successful groups will receive extra credit).

Think carefully about the group you plan to support, then write a short statement of who they are and what their common interest is. Print that out to turn in.

Next create a Yahoo Group for your community by following the three-step process at: http://groups.yahoo.com/start.

When you have completed the setup, you will receive a confirmation email. Print that out to turn in.

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Join our Yahoo group

This assignment will familiarize you with Yahoo Groups and start you thinking about the pros and cons of using an Internet service versus running an application in house.

I set up a Yahoo Group for our class. The group URL is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cisdh/

Here are email addresses for using the group via email, as opposed to the Web interface:

Post message: cisdh@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: cisdh-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: cisdh-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
List owner: cisdh-owner@yahoogroups.com

Join the group. When you confirm your request to join, you will receive a welcome message by email. Print that message to turn in.

Explore the capabilties and options of the Yahoo Group.

When you are familiar with the capabilities of the Yahoo Group type the answers to the following questions and turn them in:

1. I've uploaded a shared file to the group -- what is name of the file?
   
2. What is one advantage of the Yahoo Group over our class listserver?
   
3. Who owns the computer where the class list server runs?
   
4. Who owns the computer where the Yahoo Group runs?
   
5. Who can create a Yahoo Group?
   
6. Who can create a list server at CSUDH?

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Subscribe to the class email list

The purpose of this assignment is to get you on the class list, and to give you practice with a list server and its commands.

Our class list is named cis275s2020.

To subscribe to the list, send a blank e-mail message (neither a subject nor a message) to:

join-cis275s2020@lists.csudh.edu

Note that there are no spaces in the address.

After you send that message, you will receive a confirmation email. You must reply to that to confirm that you really do want to join the list. You will not have joined the list until you confirm your request.

After that, you will receive an e-mail saying you have subscribed. Print that out and turn it in. (Be sure your name and the assignment number is on it).

The reply to your subscription request should arrive in a few seconds. If it does not, check to be sure it was not moved into a spam folder. If you still can not find the reply, get help from a classmate.

Once you have subscribed and confirmed your subscription, you can post messages to the list by sending email to:

cis275s2020@lists.csudh.edu.

Everyone on the list will get a copy of your message.


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