Online Discussion Forum / Email List

JHAA maintains a members-only online discussion forum for area residents. This forum is a Yahoo Group, sometimes referred to as an e-group. It is essentially an email distribution list but offers additional features and benefits because it is an interactive forum where you may participate in email discussions. JHAA members use this group/forum to:

Post notices about upcoming neighborhood meetings and events.
Coordinate/plan neighborhood events.
Address/discuss neighborhood issues.
Present questions to the community.
(e.g., ask for recommendations for a good plumber, ask if anyone has seen a lost dog, etc.)
Post neighborhood security watch information.
(e.g., if a suspicious vehicle has been spotted in the area, or if people are going door-to-door with sales scams)
Our police precinct captain also posts weekly crime reports for the entire precinct area.

Joining the Forum

To join the forum, send an email to jhaamobile-owner@yahoogroups.com and include your name and your street address. Your address information will be kept private, but since this is a discussion forum only for area residents, your residency must be confirmed by one of the forum moderators before you may join.

No Fee, No Spam

There is no fee to join or belong to the forum, and you do not have to have a Yahoo email address.

The forum is a NO-SPAM list. Only emails which are related to JHAA issues will be approved, posted and distributed to members. Two JHAA members function as moderators of the forum.

How it Works

Most people use the forum like regular email. A member can send an email to the group email address, and everyone in the group then receives a copy of the email. Another member may reply to that, and their reply will go to the entire group. The forum works much like any other email distribution list.

If you prefer to read the messages on a website, rather than receive them in your email inbox, you can set up a Yahoo ID. Then you can read the messages online at the Yahoo Group website, just like any other online bulletin board or online discussion forum.

More details on how it works at Using the Forum. Note that messages are sometimes moderated for appropriateness, language, etc. For more details, see Forum Etiquette.

Advantages of the Forum

We encourage you to join and participate in the online discussions. Advantages of the forum:

It allows us to interact and communicate more frequently than just the once-a-month meetings.
Because it is an interactive venue, it eliminates the one-way channel of communication where only one person sends out emails to all others in the group. The forum allows any member to post a message to share with others.
It lets you stay up to date on the issues if you miss a meeting.
It allows for thorough discussion of a topic, with input from all members who wish to weigh in, without the time constraints or schedule coordination of in-person meetings.
One written email can often accomplish a communication task and the dissemination of information more quickly and efficiently than numerous phone calls (including endless rounds of missed-calls "phone tag"), and it can help reduce instances of the "I thought you said" syndrome.
Electronic versions of the newsletters and other documents can be distributed via the forum. This allows us to reduce the number of paper newsletters we distribute, which helps us save money, paper and trees!

Use any address you like

Note that to receive JHAA emails from the forum, you do not need a Yahoo ID or email address. But if you wish to view files stored in the Files section of our forum (past meeting minutes, archived newsletters, etc.), or if you wish to participate in our online polls or view our online calendar, you will need a Yahoo ID.

Even after setting up a Yahoo ID for viewing the archived files, polls, calendar, etc., note that you may still use any email address you wish for delivery of JHAA emails. See Using the Yahoo Forum for more information.

Unsubscribing

If you wish to leave the forum at any time, simply send an email to: jhaamobile-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Related Links on this website

Forum General Information

Using the Yahoo Forum (contents page)

Forum Etiquette and Guidelines on Usage

Offline Conversations

Forum Technical How To