On 13/03/12 19:02, Anthony Shipman wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:51:44 pm Rick Moen wrote:
>> Quoting Anthony Shipman (als@iinet.net.au):
>>> That's strange because I just went and subscribed with my iinet e-mail
>>> address.
>>
>> I'm unclear on what the 'strange' part is, and wonder if you perhaps
>> might have fundamentally misunderstood what I said upthread.
>>
>> Anyhow, the link at my knowledgebase (and I now have two, one for the
>> Web method, one for the e-mail-only one) aims to help people by
>> supplying the documentation missing from Google itself about how to
>> subscribe from non-GMail subscription addresses.  Yr. welcome.
>>
> I didn't read any documentation. I just clicked the Join button and filled in
> the blanks. Perhaps they've changed something more recently.

I've subscribed non-gmail addresses to google groups, even years ago.
It's been fine.

I do note that when you create a list, you could choose to disallow
regular email subscriptions, which then makes people jump through hoops
to join.. but it wasn't selected by default, and I don't know what sort
of list admin would turn that on..