Can other members with email join in yahoo group?

I want to include non yahoo email addresses in my yahoo group. Is this possible?

• As near as I can tell, to respond to an invitation to join a yahoo group, the user must have a yahoo id. it also looks like all communication from the yahoo group will then go to that yahoo id. I want to have a group that has members with non-yahoo email addresses. They need to be able to receive notifications and communications at non-yahoo email addresses, and they need to be able to respond to the notifications, invitations etc from non-yahoo email addresses. Is this possible? Please note, I will be using the groups function and the calendar function. If this isn't possible, can anyone recommend another groups software similart to yahoo groups that will work? Thanks in advance.

• Answer:

  The short answer is Yes you can. The long answer is this from Yahoo: "You can add a new email address to your Yahoo! Groups account in one of two ways. Method A First, add the email address to your Yahoo! ID by following these steps: Go to the Account Info page. Click the Edit button next to Member Information. Enter the new email address in one of the Alternate Email fields. Click the Finished button. Next, verify your email address. (This must be done to make sure you own the email address.) Click the Edit button next to Member Information again. Click on the Non-verified link next to the new email address. You will be taken to the Email Address Verification page. Click on the Send Verification button. Check for a verification email message sent to that address. (This might take a while). Click the link in the email(s) we sent to verify your email address. Enter the email confirmation code and Yahoo! password in the boxes. Note: If the new address is already known to Yahoo! Groups (i.e., you used it to subscribe to a group), you'll have to convert it. (We're working on eliminating this step.) Go to the My Preferences page. Click on the Edit button next to Email Accounts. Find the email address you'd like to add to Yahoo! Groups and click on the Convert link. Follow the steps in the conversion wizard to link this address to your Yahoo! Groups account. Method B Join a group via email. Send an email from the new address to: [email protected]. (Make sure to replace "groupname" in the address with the actual name of the group.) Reply to the confirmation message sent to you to verfiy that you own that address. Note: This will be an "email-only" membership. You will be able to receive email from the group (and post if it is a discussion group). If you want to access all of the web features of the group, you will have to convert it. We're currently working on improving this process to make it easier."