General Discussion (Model Railroader)

cudaken:

jwhitten:

If you don't you need to sign up for the Yahoo! account first

 If I sign up for a Yahoo account, will it take over as my browser? I hate it when things take over when I don't want it to.

            Ken

They'll probably do their best to CONvince you that you need to download their Yahoo! toolbar or something similar. They might even be sneaky about it-- both Yahoo! and Google frequently are. Just be aware that they might do that and examine your submission carefully and check or un-check any boxes where you either "agree" to let it be installed, or else "don't mind" if they do.

Aside from that the Yahoo! account is free and everything you do with it will be online and with an un-encumbered browser. I might also add that there are a lot of great Railroad and Model Railroad oriented Yahoo! Groups you can check out. I personally belong to a lot of the PRR-related ones, the Layout Design SIG, The Shelf Layouts group, the JMRI group, several DCC-related groups, etc.

What I don't have is time to read them all... *sigh*

John

jwhitten:

You can either read postings on the group site, or have a digest sent to you via email-- that's what I do.

I'm set up that way as well. I strongly suggest that you set up a separate Yahoo email account to receive the notifications because you will get a TON of emails!

when you sign up for the group there is a selection you can make in your profile to not get the emails from the group. If memmory servs correctly the three choices are to:

Recieve all emails to the group

Recieve emails in a digest form

No emails, read messages on the forum

tick the No emails selection and no emails will be sent

You sign up for the group, no download or installing any software is needed.

mononguy63:

jwhitten:

You can either read postings on the group site, or have a digest sent to you via email-- that's what I do.

I'm set up that way as well. I strongly suggest that you set up a separate Yahoo email account to receive the notifications because you will get a TON of emails!

Yeah, I'm set up for 'daily digests' which on most days works out to about two emails with approx 12-15 emails 'digested' (grouped) inside. Occasionally I only get one digest email in a day. Once in awhile more than two. But only ever a few with the 'daily digest' method. Its quite tolerable.

The way I have it set up automatically routes it to a separate folder in my Yahoo! mail account.

What I do is create a separate mail folder in my Yahoo! account, and then go to the 'settings' section and add a 'filter' to direct anything with 'HOYARDSALE' in the subject line into the correct folder. Then I just notice whenever I have new mail in that folder. Works great.

loathar:

Greg H.:

Do they have other scales?

 

No, this one is HO only. There's a separate Yahoo group for N scale but it's moderated by a different guy. It's great for finding stuff you need. Just post a Want To Buy notice. I've had 4 guys send me minor parts and not even charge me S&H!!

yes they have n-scale also

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ngauge/

 Loathar, Ken,

Thanks for sharing the info with us.  I'm interested as I've been looking for a couple of "difficult-to-find" Walthers structures that were retired a few years back.  I just joined.

Is there a "Feedback" type system or rating that similar to ebay's so that we may be aware of unscrupulous sellers?

Antonio,

To my knowledge, there isn't a Feedback system in place but the Mod runs a pretty tight ship.

Nothing gets posted unless he oks it.

Kijiji is another good venue to use as well.

I just received a Walthers Built-up Pella Depot through Kijiji for $30 Canadian

& the gentleman was kind enough to deliver it to my house as he was travelling to me area & he lives 2 hours away from me.

AntonioFP45:

 Loathar, Ken,

Thanks for sharing the info with us.  I'm interested as I've been looking for a couple of "difficult-to-find" Walthers structures that were retired a few years back.  I just joined.

Is there a "Feedback" type system or rating that similar to ebay's so that we may be aware of unscrupulous sellers?

No, there isn't any feed back. It's straight seller to buyer. If you have a problem with a seller and get ripped off, you can report it to Patrick the moderater and then he will try to step in to help make things right or ban the seller from HOYS. He runs a VERY tight service, but it's all about trusting a fellow modeller. Once you do a deal, you have the sellers direct Email and name. (try to sort things like slow shipping or bad packaging out yourself with the seller.) Don't bother Patrick with those unless you get totally ripped off. He has enough on his plate providing a completely free service!!

I got an Email from HOYS today where Patrick said he got 140 new members in the last week since I made this post!
Just wondering how many of you folks on TRAINS.COM signed up in the last week????