First Steps - Second try: How to join the group and visit the page
Ralph
some slightly more detailed instructions.
By the way, if anyone is uncomfortable with the "Statesmen" name we could change or
modify it. I want to be sure that people like Mick and other musicians from the
sixties feel at home in the group.
Now first, a step-by-step explanation as to how to get to the group. This will be
lots of text but it should be easy to follow.
FIRST, start up your trusty Internet Browser, the one you use to surf porn, etc.
probably the "Microsoft Internet Explorer," or another program with the same
function. The first step is to go to the following internet address
http://groups.google.com/group/the-original-statesmen?hl=en
If your system is set up right, you should be able to just click on this link in the
line above this one, if it's underlined in this mail, and you should land there. If
not, then copy the underlined "http..." line into your windows clipboard by marking
it with the mouse and typing "Ctrl/C" or pointing at it with the mouse and using the
right mouse key, or however you copy text, and then move the mouse to the very top
line in your Internet Explorer and paste it in there with "Ctrl/V" or by using the
right mouse key again, then press the ENTER key.
You should reach the "The Statesmen" Google Group page, you've successfully "jogged
over to the group." You should see the photo of one of the old "Statesmen" flyers at
the top of the screen, and some other stuff below it. I've attached the photo
"startscreen_al.jpg" to this mail to show you what it should look like there.
SECOND, now you join the group. I had lots of text here in the first version that
Outlook deleted for me, this might be reduced in size a bit.
On the right side of the screen you should see a text link that says, "Join this
group." Click on it, you'll see a Google page with a box on the right that says,
"Sign in to Google Groups with your Google Account." At the bottom of the box there
is a link that says, "Create an account now." Click on this link, you go to a brief
little form where you enter your email address and a password (which you enter twice
to avoid typing errors). In the bottom part enter your Nickname - PLEASE use your
first name for our purposes - and fill in the "spam control" box, you have to read
the distorted letters and type them into the box (this is a spam protection method at
Google, sometimes difficult to read). Then click the button "I accept Create my
account" and we're nearly finished!
This will bring you to a brief page for Email verification. You can ignore this FOR
NOW, just click on "Click here to continue." Now you're back to the Statesmen "Join"
page, everything should already be there (ensure that your first name is in the
"Nickname" field) and click on "Join this group."
You're in! You should see the screen like before, but now you should see the mails
we've exchanged as "Discussions", a "Photos & Links" page, and more.
Now you must go to your email box and answer the mail that was sent to you by Google,
asking you to double-click on a link. Do this, it finishes your registration and
ensures to Google that you can do a mail dialog.
It is quite a bit of stuff when you look at it like this, but you're in the group.
Let me know if there are difficulties!
All the best,
Ralph
