On Nov. 12, 2009, Peter Campbell said

So, I cut and pasted the 49 email addresses into the Google Groups "invite" box, and got a message saying that Google was going to have to review the list to make sure that I'm not spamming anyone.I was allowed to provide a rationale for my invites, and told them that it's a 13 year old list moving to Google Groups; we're all old friends; you're all waiting on the invites, and we've never had anything to do with spam.  Here's hoping that Google will see fit to approve this in a timely fashion, but, hey, I'm paying nothing for their service.

So, in the meantime, you are all welcome to browse to:

http://groups.google.com/group/orcassians

And request an invite, if you don't feel like waiting for the one I'm hopefully mailing you.  I'll approve those as they come in (if I'm awake).
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  Peter

For better or worse you need a Gmail account to access the Google Group.  Fortunately it's a) easy to get a Gmail Account and b) once you've got it you can enter your real, regular, preferred, possibly non-Gmail email account as your login account.  Here's Peter on how that works.

1. Log onto the Group web page: http://groups.google.com/group/orcassians
2. From the upper-right hand corner of the screen, click on "My Account"
3. Under "Personal Settings", there's an option called "Email Addresses",
with an "Edit" link.  Click "Edit"
4. Under "Add an alternate email address to your account" add your pesonal email address, then click "Save".
5.Look in your personal email for a verification email, and click on the
link in that email to verify that you're adding the address.  You'll have to
sign in to your Google/GMail account to verify.
6. Go back to http://groups.google.com/group/orcassians
7. Click on the "Edit My Membership" menu item (on the right).
8. There should be a drop down list under the "Which address do you want to
use for this group?"question.  Select your personal address and click "Save
these Settings".

Note: these instructions worked for me.

(David Innes)