<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>That's how they can process your confirmation reply with no other input from you. If you just hit reply, and your mailer is not set to auto-quote the original message, the body may be blank. In which case, if you happen to leave the subject as-is, they have a number they can look up in their list of pending subscriptions, and verify you really do own the email address for which the request was made.<br><br>Jim<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:42:55 -0800<br>From: lclgcnp@yahoo.com<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Illustrated Guide to Google Group signup<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit;" valign="top"><div>What's with all the goofy letters and such after "join request for pianotech"?<br><br>Thumpe</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="ecx_origMsg_"> <div style=""> <br> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span> </b> Jim Moy <jimmoy@outlook.com>; <br> <b> <span style="">To:</span> </b> pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>; <br> <b> <span style="">Subject:</span> </b> Re: [pianotech] Illustrated Guide to Google Group signup <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span> </b> Tue, Feb 26, 2013 3:23:39 AM <br> </font> <br> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font:inherit;" valign="top"><div dir="ltr">Ok, how about this?<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11EBGFtSazReAIaPvmtQwmuBGI6FbeZvIpmsx_cy5isU/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/11EBGFtSazReAIaPvmtQwmuBGI6FbeZvIpmsx_cy5isU/edit?usp=sharing</a><br><br>I read your posts, John! We met at the 2008 National in Anaheim, at one of Don Manino's presentations, and then later at the pianotech-offline meeting.<br><br>Jim<br><br><div><div id="ecxSkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: jrpiano@bellaliant.net<br>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:07:27 -0400<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Illustrated Guide to Google Group signup<br><br>Unfortunately,<div>None of the images showed on my Mac.</div><div>Luckily though, I have been successful in joining the gmail+ pianotech list.</div><div>I have said in the past that the pianotech list was not given the recognition it deserved, but I don't remember anyone making a comment, when I said it.</div><div>Oh well, maybe my name was one of the ones that people never bothered reading. LOL</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br><br><div><div>On 2013-02-25, at 10:37 PM, Jim Moy <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jimmoy@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="ecxim">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Dean May <<a rel="nofollow" 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<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pianotech+subscribe@ 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<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pianotech@googlegroups.com</a>.<br><br>That is all!<br><br>Jim<br><br><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div> </div> <br></div></div> </div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div></div> </div></body> </html>