Re: [nafex] list is alive!

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:56 PM Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 31, 2019, at 10:31 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > You do not have to have a Google account to join and use a Google Group.
>
> I don't think that's true.
>
> >
> > Here is the new webforum:
> >
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nafe <
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nafe>
> > --
>
> I went to that link; and discovered I couldn't even see the group, let
> alone post to it, unless I signed in. So I tried to sign in to it, and got
> as far as providing an email address: at which point I got "couldn't find
> your Google account" and couldn't go any further.
>
>
I had forgotten about the issue with non gmail accounts. I am sure Google
has their reasons for this. I found this option and am curious whether it
works, it would be really useful to know.
It supposedly allows you to use your current email address (i.e. a
non-Gmail one) to create the required Google account without having to have
a Gmail email address.
https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?continue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2FManageAccount&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp
This must work and is acceptable to those who use this method because I
just created a new Google Group for the people who were subscribed to
Sanet-MG which has now ended. I just looked at the member list and ovr one
third of subscribers have non Gmail addresses.
Would you try this out and let me know if it works for you?
NAFE is an experiment to see if the webforum format option for a Google
Group works for people and is at all useful.
Non gmail users not being able to use Groups is unacceptable so there must
be a workaround.


> So I don't think anyone without an account can even see the group


It is not a public group, only for subscribers.


> (though as it offered to sign me in via an account with YouTube or other
> "Google product" it's possible that some people have an account but don't
> know it.) And I don't see how it's going to get us new members if only
> those who already know it's there (and have an account on top of that) can
> even see it.
>
> While I don't mean to denigrate your work on this, or your time and
> attention which are appreciated, I'm also puzzled that the reaction to a
> lot of people saying in effect 'wow! great! the email list is back!' is to
> promptly try to direct us all away from the email list and towards yet
> another possible diversion from it.
>
>
>
>
> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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