Thank you for completing the petition process. Its too
bad you had to wade through all of that. But the days 
of the innocent and trusting internet are gone. The 
petition is the only working process that blocks 
unwanted automated spam that trashes yahoo discussion
groups.

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Please send a message to the group (a POST) introducing
yourself, and add your questions or interest in this group.

Please know that yahoo groups does not take kindly to 
bouncing email. If it dumps you off the group, don't 
take it personnally (that would be like getting angry 
at a computer). Just resubscribe and state so in the 
new petition (use the fresh copy sent to you upon 
subscription).

Note:

Upon this group's creation many RAV4-EV interested have
joined. However some of the members felt issues with a
yahoo group did not suit their needs and/or they were 
more familar with a reflective text email list (similar
to the EV1-Club list which is text email based). 

The members decided to create a text email RAV4 EV list.
There is a link to that text email RAV4-EV list in the
links area of this rav4_ev group. There are about 160 
members on the RAV4_EV group, some of them are also 
subscribed to the text email list. 

RAV4 EV members seem to be using the RAV4_EV group
features (links, photos, files, etc.), while mostly 
talking/chatting on the RAV4-EV text email list.
http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/rav4-ev/

This means most of the members POSTs are not archived
on the RAV4 EV yahoo group. There is an archive of the
rav4-ev list messages but you have to be a member to 
access them (the same as the EV1-Club List archive 
which is only available its members).

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