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You can join a Yahoo group by sending a blank email to "<groupname>-subscribe@yahoogroups.com". There is no CAPTCHA, only an automated email confirmation which you reply to. Is there a reason why that wouldn't work for this project?

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If this works, would be much easier to automate the army of manual archivistas that is currently using the chrome extension and blocked by recaptcha.

You can only join a very small number of groups this way before it just stops working - we did try this out early in the archive process

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