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Product Overview
.Mac
Unique Group Email Address
Each group has a unique group email address. Any message you send to the group
email address reaches all the current members of the group; members don’t have to
maintain group lists in their personal Address Books when members join or leave the
group. Email from senders who are not group members is automatically screened out,
so you won’t have to worry about receiving spam.
The Messages section of the group website includes an archive of messages sent to
the group email address—including attachments. Members can choose whether to
receive messages through their personal email accounts or just go to the website to
look for updates. Tiger users can set up a Smart Mailbox to collect all email from the
group in one place.
Easy Member Management
When you set up a group, you can invite members to join in minutes. .Mac Groups
is integrated with your .Mac Address Book, which is synced to the Mac OS X Address
Book on your desktop—all you have to do is select the names you want. You can
invite both Mac and Windows users to join.
If you want, you can allow the members of your group to invite people to join.
However, no membership becomes active until you, as the group owner, approve
the candidate.
Group Calendar
You can use iCal to publish a calendar or set of calendars to the group website. Group
members can subscribe to the calendar through iCal to have it appear along with
their other calendars. Calendar events can also be viewed on the group website.
Photo and Movie Sharing
One of the advantages of a group site is that it provides a central location for every-
one to share photos and movies from group events. You can use all the features of
iWeb or .Mac HomePage to make beautiful pages for your group site. Members put
photos and movies in the group iDisk folder; anyone in the group can then create
pages and publish them to the group site.
Members can also share photos and movies from their personal web pages, which
they can post to the site through the Other Links section.
iDisk File Sharing
Group members who are .Mac members have a folder on their personal iDisk that
is designated for sharing fi les with the group. They can transfer media fi les and
documents just by dragging them into the group folder on the desktop; there’s no
need to open another member’s iDisk.
Group members who are not .Mac members can access the group folder on the
iDisk by clicking the Group iDisk link on the group page.