On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 01:05 pm, Judy Hall - Punch with Judy wrote:

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?

No matter what you do, it's possible that some messages will get lost in the shuffle. Personally, I allowed users to continue to post to Yahoo while we waited for transfer.

The transfer agent will not shut down your Yahoo group...everything will still be there. What I did, as soon as the transfer completed, I put the Yahoo group on "moderated" status.?This served as a gentle reminder that the group was now defunct and people needed to go to the new group. Then I took the list of un-transferred stuff that the agent sent me and tried to download those materials myself from Yahoo. Success with this was marginal -- if the agent had trouble getting it, odds are that you will, too.

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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.

Difficulties with bouncing members and spam filters varies a great deal depending on each person's ISP, email client, and how computer--savvy they are. I think your best bet is to warn people about these possibilities, hope for the best, and help clean up the mess afterward.?

Good luck!
Bruce

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