Re: Closing the Yahoo group
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Paul, thank you. I now have changed the welcome message and, indeed, made all messages to be moderated. Such a good idea. I didn't think of that,
Barbara
Hello Barbara,
We had the same situation with our relict Yahoo group after moving to GIO.
What I did was change the message in the masthead photo on the main page to say that we had moved to GIO and to come see us there.? But I left the YGroup in place as a signpost to our new GIO group.
Well at first that didn't stop a few of the die-hard members from trying to post on the old YGroup so I changed it so that all posts would have to be approved by a moderator AND I also posted a message to the group titled, 'This is the Final Post to CRL' in which I announced (yet again) that we had moved and provide a URL to the new GIO group.
Now in the very rare case that someone tries to post to the old YGroup I get an alert that there is a post needing approval.? Then I reject the post and include? a note giving directions to the member for where to join us on GIO.
We have been moved now since the end of June of this year and the posts to the old group have all stopped now.
I'd suggest just leaving your old YGroup in place as a signpost to your new GIO group but set the old one as inactive so that no one can post to it.
Cheers!
Paul M.
CRL Owner/Moderator
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