Michelle -

I have moved three of my own groups (one with extensive message archives)?and oversaw the moves of a number more. The most difficult thing was to remember to make the 'transfer' email address a moderator of your Yahoo group. To be honest, I think it takes longer to explain the process than it does to do it. If there are problems afterward, use the help email and Mark can straighten out about anything. I'm sure it's even smoother since I moved my groups.

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As for the members, most of mine never noticed. I had to remind them to change their address books to show the new group address and to send messages to the correct address, but otherwise there was nothing but praise from most of them. I left my old Yahoo groups running but set to full moderation so I could catch those who forgot.

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If you run into any problems with managing the move or dealing with issues that may arise, bring them here to this group. I would guess there are already thousands of groups that have moved, and waiting will only risk losing your information if Yahoo finally scuttles itself.

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Dano

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Dear IO and Dear Group Managers,

Serious question -- with the current system outage over at YahooGroups, I am seriously considering moving my Yahoo Groups here, as there have been positive reviews.

Several questions --?

1.? Is it easy to transfer the groups?

2.? What implications for the member?? Especially, will they have to create a new account here, or if they to date have been only using the YahooGroup via their email to send and receive messages, will it be a seamless transfer with no verification step necessary?

3.? If *everyone* having trouble at YahooGroups is getting the same advice, to transfer to Groups.io, how is capacity?? Are you going to be able to handle the deluge?

Many many thanks,
I may make the move in the next few hours...

Michelle
(moderator in Geneva, Switzerland)