Slight Confusion with Google Group Invitations
In joining the Mac OS X open source graphing package (CorePlot) group on Google Groups today I ran into something I've hit a few times before - people invite me based on my email address, which makes sense, but most of the time that's my "transient" email account - currently Comcast. What I ended up with was an invitation on my Comcast email account and not on my Gmail account where all my Google Groups are registered.
The problem is, I want them all on the same Gmail account. What I've had to do in the past was manually join the group, or have the owner send a new invitation to my Gmail account. While I sent an email to the group owner, I decided to try and fix this once and for all - by creating an account for my Comcast email account.
It wasn't all that hard - I basically did it in about 15 mins and in the end, I had my Comcast email as one account, and I'd unsubscribed to the CorePlot group. I'd then put all my other email addresses on my main Gmail account, so that should a new invitation come in, it's possible to have all them routed to the one main Gmail account. At least that's how I'm guessing it works. If not, I'll create another and then deal with that.
While it was a pain to have to go through all this, I have to say that the UI for the Google Groups is pretty nice. It's about as good as I could expect for a web-based app - even Google. There are a lot of screens, and it's easy to get lost in the maze of forms to set up the account and profile. It's something to get used to, but once you get the idea of where things are, it's a decent interface and gets the job done.
I'm glad to have cleared this up, anyway. Going forward, I shouldn't have any more issues of getting invitations under one email address and not having an account on Google Groups.
UPDATE: I will say that the support for Safari in Google Groups was far better than Camino and Firefox. I'm not sure why that is, maybe it's just because they have more Safari guys and they wanted to be supported well, or maybe it's the feature set in WebKit - hard to know. But things are much nicer in terms of uploading images and such in Safari. Gotta love that!