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December 8th 04, 03:37 PM

wrote:

I've joined several Yahoo shortwave groups over the past week. Degen,
Tecsun, Sony, etc., all have some great information. The Yahoo
Shortwave Radios group has me puzzled though. I completed the
information sheet last week and I still can't get in. Yahoo says "Your
membership is awaiting approval by the group owner".

It must be quite an exclusive shortwave radio club to require that much
of a background check. Thinking back over all the forums, nets, bbses,
etc., I've belonged to over the years I've never had a forum owner
limit access...usually they welcome it.

These things do vary - I think it took a few weeks for me to be approved when I joined a 7030 reflector. Premium RX took less than a day, and the TMB Telescope reflector approved me in minutes.

The "owner" of the group may be on vacation, or too busy to check the email account used to manage the group.

You might also take another look at the page where you sent the subscription request to in case there is a request for you to do something as part of getting approved. The group I set up for my astronomical society asks applicants to tell us something
about themselves, and to include some indication they have an idea what a group like ours might do as a way of protecting us from spam.

With a shortwave news group, the owner may check your usenet posting history to make sure you're not a troll. That's not a time consuming thing, but if this is the busy time of year for them, it's one more thing to slow them down.