On 24/03/2019 15:30, Shal Farley wrote:
Doug,
I don't recognize you from Y!GMF, if you'd like some advice in trying to get your new address connected to your group contact us over there.
Hi Shal
and Thanks for your email.
I only signed up for Groups Managers Forum today, my thanks for the help and further offers of help.
> There seems to be nothing I can do except pay them money (which I
> won't do) to talk to a real live person, and who may be unable to help
> anyway..
Be cautious with anyone asking for money. There are a lot of scam outfits out there pretending to be Yahoo Customer Care.
This is actually on the yahoo site, so should be quite OK. Nevertheless, I'm not going to get caught in there at what I see is a dead end.
On the other hand there is a relatively new Yahoo! Account Pro service, which is paid, but given that your primary concern is a access to a Yahoo Group they probably won't know how to do that.
What I see is not good. I think it is going to be a move to Groups.io. After my experiences through the years, this is the way for me to go.
If you can still sign in to your Yahoo Account, the one that owns the Yahoo Group, then you can do what you need without email access.
No, I simply cannot sign in. However, I *can* received postings by members of this group, and reply to them by altering the headers, but I simply cannot enter the group itself to make any changes.
> My group has one co-moderator who could use his email address. Would
> this work?
As long as he can invite someone (the transfer address) to join the group, and then promote that new member to moderator status, then yes. He could do the Yahoo tasks for your group.
He may be able to sign me in as a new member, if I use my brother's name or somesuch illegal stuff, but I doubt that he could sign me in and then promote me to owner, not being one himself. He has been co-moderator for 2 or 3 years, but I can't remember what privileges I gave him, probably not too high to avoid anyone trying to take over the group, although he is a fellow collector, well-known in his circles, (I'm in New Zealand, he's in US) I trust him, and I doubt any problems would arise. We are fellow collectors of old toy trains, especially two makes of Japanese.
I may get him to download all the many photographs which we have there, and later transfer them to the new site, after which we can simply abandon yahoo. The text messages are hardly worth saving.
It is the privilege to promote a member to moderator that you might not have given him as a moderator. Many owners are hesitant to give out that privilege as it is effectively all-powerful, second only to being an owner.
See paragrph above..
> He could become a co-owner of the new group.
That would allow him to do the Groups.io side of the transfer, which is probably the simplest way to handle it.
Shal
I think your last paragraph has it all sorted.. I agree..
So, my grateful thanks for the trouble you have taken here, and I will see what happens over the next couple of weeks. I'm now 80, and getting too old for this nonsense!
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Cheers.
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Doug Harris
Cambridge, New Zealand
