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And my new yahoo account can't join any groups :/

I had this. Once I added a backup email address, it worked. I found this by trial and error. It seems that Yahoo doesn't consider its email addresses to be valid.

Did you see the sibling comment to yours, posted 7 hours earlier? Is that not a different issue?

What error do you get? If it's:

> Your email address is not linked to a Yahoo ID. To join this group, you need to link your email address to a Yahoo account.

Then you need to go into "Account security" and link an email address with the account. I don't know why the instructions don't tell you this.

Sorry, got sidetracked, wanted to edit in the issue link. It's this issue: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner/issues/1...

Thanks for the suggestion though, I saw that thread about linking a fallback email address as well but that seems to be a different thing.

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