I've been trying Google Groups but as I've grown more and more frustrated with the inability to turn off threading in Gmail [ed note: see Can I Disable Threading in Gmail?] I've decided to just bail on Google entirely. Bing will work for search, and Yahoo Groups will do just fine for managing my mailing lists. How do I delete a Google group?...

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I want to set up a Google Group for my local church group, but I know that at least a few people in the group won't be able to deal with invitations that they need to click on the link, etc. So is there any way to directly create a group and then simply indicate who should be on the list, without "inviting" them, per se?...

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I've just set up a group for my church on Google Groups after having researched a variety of alternatives and so far, it's going well. Except for one thing: whenever anyone responds to a message sent to the group, everyone sees it, not just the person who sent in the original message. This is driving some parishioners crazy. How can I fix it?...

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I want to create a new mailing list but rather than use my standard tool of Yahoo Groups, I thought I'd like to try Google Groups. How do I create a mailing list group in Google Groups?...

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I've run various groups on Yahoo Groups for a long time, but looking at it today, I realize there are some that are dead. How do you delete groups on Yahoo Groups?...

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I'm wondering if I can create a group within my google contacts and make these group also available to other google users. I realized on your website that you are a google guru - so I thought I give it a try and ask you!...

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In the early days of the Internet, back when we called it a "dirt road" and were delighted when email bounced from UUCP connection to UUCP connection as is slowly wound its way from one end of the topological jungle to the other, email mailing lists were quite the cool thing. Years have passed and we now have sophisticated web-based discussion boards, blogs and many other venues for interpersonal interaction, but email remains, to me,...

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I'm interested in watching how the online world responds to the release of the brand-new Volvo c30 coupe, and am wondering what tools are out there to make it easy to accomplish. I know that I can use something like Google, but that seems pretty inefficient. Also, I'm imagining that this is probably a more general question....

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