Starry Night Discussion List FAQ

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Compose an e-mail message and send it to StarryNight@yahoogroups.com. Your message will automatically be forwarded to everyone on the Discussion List.

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To do this, you will need to have a Yahoo! ID. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/starrynight, sign in with your ID and password (or register for one if you don't have), and click the "Edit my membership" link on the right side of the screen. You can choose one of three message formats: individual e-mails, one daily digest with all the day's messages, or no e-mail.

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A Yahoo! ID allows you to access certain web-only features of the group such as the message archive and the files database. It also allows you to view messages on the web, instead of in your e-mail. A Yahoo! ID is not needed if you only wish to receive e-mail messages from the group and post messages. To get a Yahoo! ID, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/starrynight and click the "register" link in the top right corner. This will link your e-mail address to a Yahoo! ID. The next time you visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/starrynight, click the "Sign in" link in the upper right corner. This will prompt you to enter your Yahoo! ID and password. There is also an option to "remember my ID". If you check this box, you will not be prompted for your ID and password every time you access the Starry Night Discussion List web page. Once you are signed in, all of the links on the Starry Night Discussion List web page will be active. For more information, see the Yahoo Registration Help page.

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Yes. To access this archive, you will need to have a Yahoo! ID. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/starrynight, sign in and click the "Messages" link on the left side of the screen. This will display a list of messages, sorted by date. You can browse the archive or use the search function to find messages related to a certain topic.

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No, the Discussion List is unmoderated, and messages are not reviewed before they are posted. This means that occasionally you will receive a junk mail advertisement or other off-topic message. The best thing to do is ignore these messages. Several SPACE.com employees do monitor the list and will remove members who post objectionable messages.

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To access these files, you will need to have a Yahoo! ID. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/starrynight, sign in and click the "Files" link on the left side of the screen. This will display an annotated list of all files that have been posted. If you are using Internet Explorer (Windows version), right-click on the file you are interested in and choose "Save Target as" to download the file to your hard drive. You can also post your own files to the group by clicking the "Add File" link.

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All messages from the Discussion List will have StarryNight@yahoogroups.com in the "To" field, and [Starry Night] in the subject line. You can use these facts to filter all mail from the Discussion List into a special folder. You may also wish to switch your user preferences so that you receive all the e-mails from the list in a daily digest, or receive no e-mail, but access the list through the web. Read on to learn how to filter your Discussion List messages in a special folder. The following instructions tell you how to do this using Microsoft's Outlook Express (Windows version). The procedure should be similar for most other e-mail programs:

(1) Open Outlook Express. The left side of the screen will list your mail folders. Right-click the mouse on your "Inbox" folder and choose "New Folder" from the popup menu. Name the new folder "Starry Night Discussion" and click "OK". This has created a new folder named "Starry Night Discussion" inside your Inbox.

(2) Choose Tools->Message Rules->Mail from the Outlook Express menu. Hit the "New" button in the window that opens. This opens a new window where you will choose the rules for your new filter. Under the heading "Select the conditions for your rule", check the box marked "Where the To Line Contains People". Under the heading "Select the actions for your rule", check the box marked "Move it to the specified folder". Under the heading "Rule description", click on the words "contains people". Type in the name StarryNight@yahoogroups.com. Click the "Add" button and then the "OK" button. Under the heading "Rule description", click on the word "specified". Click on the folder "Starry Night Discussion" from the list of folders and then click "OK". Under the heading "Name of the Rule", type "Starry Night Discussion Filter". Click "OK" twice to close the open windows.

After following this procedure, all incoming mail from the Starry Night Discussion List should be moved automatically to your "Starry Night Discussion" folder, so you can open this folder to browse through all Discussion List messages at the same time.

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To unsubscribe from this group, send an e-mail to: StarryNight-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com. Please do not post a message to the entire group! If you have more than one e-mail account, it is important that you send this e-mail from the account that is subscribed to the Discussion List, otherwise you may get an error message telling you that you are not signed up for the Discussion List.

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