Transfer Group from Yahoo
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Judy Hall - Punch with Judy
Thank you Bruce, this is indeed very good advice, though not all wonderful to look forward to.? Hadn¡¯t realised that everything would not be transferred over.? In the Interim, does that mean whilst waiting that there is no active group postings etc?? When completed, is the Yahoo Group no longer in existence? Because I have a separate email list of all students, separate to the Yahoo Group list of members, after I advise them of my intentions to move the group, I have already conducted a poll, do I have to advise them to make sure the link address is in their approved listing, ie white listed? Again, I appreciate your past experience advice. ? Judy ?
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Bowman
Sent: Monday, 26 February 2018 3:26 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Transfer Group from Yahoo ? Judy -- One of the biggest pitfalls we encountered were Yahoo group members who were set to "no email." We had a difficult time notifying them of the migration, and despite our best efforts some of them were blind-sided. Since there's no reliable way to contact them via the Yahoo group, you may have to capture their email address and send them a note manually. To mitigate this, I wanted to put up a new banner (i.e.: "cover image") that notifies anyone visiting the Yahoo group of our move, giving the new groups.io URL. Yahoo has repeatedly frustrated my efforts to do this.
You can also plan to have a number of members start to bounce emails after the transfer completes, due either to dead email addresses among your Yahoo records or recipient mail servers that for some reason think mail coming from groups.io as spam. The latter can be a particular problem as some will be automatically unsubbed from the group and have to be re-added. Anyone who had to "white list" Yahoo to get their group mail will likely have to do so with groups.io as well. Hotmail in particular seems troublesome in this regard.
That said, this can also be useful to eliminate some of the deadwood users that seem to accumulate over time.
In our two migrations, members, files and messages seemed to transfer well. Photos are more troublesome and you can expect to lose a third to a half of them...for no other reason than the Yahoo servers are balky. Be advised the files attachments to messages -- photos or otherwise -- are NOT migrated. This includes any photos appearing in the "Photostream."
Finally, be advised that many groups are abandoning Yahoo right now and it may take awhile (a week or more) for the transfer agent to get around to you. The inability to provide a firm date to your members as to when the migration will actually take place can also be mildly frustrating.
That's my experience. Hope this helps!
Bruce
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