The “No Email” delivery is a hazard most Yahoo Groups has when it comes to contacting the entire list membership. No Email means just that. The person who chooses no “No Email” wants only one way contact with the List. A move like the one from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io creates a vacuum that cannot be avoided when it comes to informing the Yahoo List subscribers of the of the transfer to Groups.io.

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I am one of two co-owners of a Yahoo Group that has existed for almost 20 years. The subscriber list is over 12,000. Of that list about 58%, from a membership sampling of 1000 subscribers, have chosen the “No Email” delivery method. We cannot contact that 58% membership directly.

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I am one of those leading this 12,000 member list in the move to Groups.io. We, the co-owners, have elected to eliminate from the new list at groups.io the “No Email” mail delivery option.

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Here is what I expect to happen when the transfer finally takes place.

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1) All of the members who have dead email address (Bouncing) will not be transferred thus lowering the number of members at the new location. How many the dead email list members there are is unknown. I can say from a sampling of the bouncing members that the number is greater than 1000.

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2) All of the “No Email” subscribers who did not have a bouncing/dead email address will be converted to “Special Notice” status. This will allow us to at least contact those members in the future who we could not contact on the Yahoo Group list in the past.

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3) I have been told, and I have not yet been able to confirm this but during the transfer all those members who do not already have a Groups.io account will be sent a notice on how to join Groups.io. Those members who already have a Groups.io account will not receive this how to join groups.io email.

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4) If the above item #3 takes place then I expect to see some of those that were converted from “No Email” to “Special Notice” bouncing.

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5) If the above item #3 does not take place then I expect to see some of those “Special Notice” subscribers bouncing after I send a “Special Notice” to the entire membership announcing that the transfer from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io is complete and that the Yahoo Group activity has been terminated.

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I did transfer one of my smaller lists, starting subscribers was 227. I did see the elimination of the bouncing email subscribers. I did see the conversion of “No Email” to “Special Notice”. I also saw about a 20% of the membership bouncing and almost all of them had previously been subscribers having the “No Email” deliver status.

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How the subscriber list will look after the transfer takes place and how many bouncing emails the list will receive will be interesting to say the least.

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In the end the I hope to have a more defined and dedicated group of subscribers.

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Al