From steph.helms at sailmaine.org Fri Aug 20 11:53:46 2010 From: steph.helms at sailmaine.org (Stephanie Helms) Date: Fri Aug 20 12:00:16 2010 Subject: [Juniors] Google Groups - the details Message-ID: Hi- Thanks to all who've subscribed to the new Groups. SailMaine is using Google Groups to promote communication between members of High School sailing teams, Casco Bay Junior Sailing participants, and others. We're changing from the old List Servers for a lot of reasons: most important, using Groups will allow list members to share spreadsheet files, pictures, documents -- almost anything you can imagine. The 100k message limit on our old list servers really cramped the style of a lot of list members. We'll be closing down the old listservers on September 15, so please subscribe to the new Group as soon as possible. Negotiating the move, and signing up with the new Groups is easy, but there are a few glitches to be aware of. The e-mail address you subscribe with must be associated with a Google account. It's easy, doesn't cost a thing, and is not the same as a Gmail account. Because Google makes sure everybody's e-mail address is from a real person, we get to make sure the group isn't overrun by spambots clogging up traffic (as has been a wee problem with our lists servers). Some of you signed up without a Google account, so your e-mail address shows up as Unverified on our Group Members list. You can't post to the Group or get messages from the Group until you link the e-mail you are using to a Google account. I'll let you know individually if your e-mail address has this issue, but if you know it does, you can fix it by verifying your address with Google. We've put together a presentation that will walk you through the steps you need to take to subscribe to the Groups. If you're having trouble, have a look here . Slides 5 through 9 walk you through the Google Account setup, while slides 11-15 cover subscribing, unsubscribing, and posting to a group. These links will take you to the Groups' pages: - Cape Elizabeth High School(cehs) - Cheverus(cheverus) - Falmouth High School(falmouthhs) - Intramural Sailing(hs-intramural_sailing) - Portland High School(phs) - Southern Maine High School(smhs) - Casco Bay Junior Sailing(juniors) For more information on Google Groups and how they work, please visit http://groups.google.com/support/?hl=en If you have questions as to how SailMaine works with Google Groups, or if you're having trouble getting things to work, don't hesitate to contact me. Regards, Stephanie Helms IT and Special Projects SailMaine 207.650.7878 207.329.6274 (mobile) 58 Fore Street Portland, ME 04101 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.sailmaine.org/pipermail/juniors/attachments/20100820/a5b040fe/attachment.htm