<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><div class="im">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Dean May <<a href="mailto:deanmay@pianorebuilders.com" target="_blank">deanmay@pianorebuilders.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> It might be helpful to others if you would post the steps you had to take<br> ><br><br></div>Here is an illustrated guide to joining the pianotech Google Group, using a non-Gmail email account:<br><br>Bring up the email program you want to use, and compose an email to <a href="mailto:pianotech%2Bsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">pianotech+subscribe@<wbr>googlegroups.com</a>, like this:<br> <br><img alt="Inline image 1" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ae65224089&view=att&th=13d13e5ee33fe305&attid=0.2&disp=emb&realattid=ii_13d13df5ad030625&zw&atsh=1" height="517" width="817"><br><br></div><div>And then hit Send. Note there is no subject or body in the email. These are not required, though if you put something there, I believe they will be ignored. They go by the senders email address, which is automatically included with the message, and that's all they need.<br> <br>Then wait for a reply:<br><br><img alt="Inline image 2" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ae65224089&view=att&th=13d13e5ee33fe305&attid=0.4&disp=emb&realattid=ii_13d13e14187c6027&zw&atsh=1" height="517" width="817"><br></div><div><span></span><span><br></span></div><div><span>It might take a few minutes, or you might get it right away, depends how busy they are. When I open the message, it looks like this:<br> <br><img alt="Inline image 3" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ae65224089&view=att&th=13d13e5ee33fe305&attid=0.3&disp=emb&realattid=ii_13d13e1ed440174c&zw&atsh=1" height="517" width="817"><br></span></div><div><span><br>They said they heard me, and I should do one of the two things. I chose to reply to the email, so I clicked the Reply button:<br> <br><img alt="Inline image 4" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ae65224089&view=att&th=13d13e5ee33fe305&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_13d13e29f68ecc0d&zw&atsh=1" height="517" width="817"><br><br></span></div><div><span>Then I hit Send.<br><br>No modifications to the default reply my email program had put together, I didn't clean up anything. I just hit Reply, then hit Send. I could've clicked that button, "Join This Group" but that would be too easy.<br> <br></span></div><span>Shortly afterwards, I received a confirmation that I was now subscribed to the email list. One of the things it'll say is you can now you can send emails to <a href="mailto:pianotech@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">pianotech@googlegroups.com</a>.<br><br>That is all!<br><br>Jim<br><br><br></span> </div></body> </html>