Re: Require info from prospective members
The only reason I ask people to put down a reason for wanting to join our groups, is to know they are real people, and not a Spam bot. When we were actively using YG on a rare occasion a member's
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Don Grass
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#4397
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Re: Transfer instructions
#transfer
For these purposes it's correct, since the person just joined and created the group. [excess quote trimmed by moderator]
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#4396
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Messages to Members - more than one in Welcome and Pending
I need to send different "pending" and "welcome" messages and I see groups.io only lets one be active. Is there a way to change this? I need this to inform the new member of our group and also have
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~mary~ <whodatgurl@...>
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#4395
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Re: Require info from prospective members
My question is how do you really know that by answering the questions ¡ª the answers are very easy to fake ¡ª that you are really screening out undesirables. You might also be screening out
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Sharon Villines
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#4394
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Re: Transfer instructions
#transfer
Not necessarily. I created a group about a year and a half ago, using a certain email address, to hold for moving a yahoogroup. Right before the move about three weeks ago, I subscribed a different
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debbie <debbiesther@...>
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#4393
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Re: Require info from prospective members
Cherrill is right, while allowing anyone to join and using the moderation status to vet them works for you we prefer to make sure they are willing to follow our rules and procedures and are going to
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Richard Carlson <rich@...>
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#4392
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Re: Require info from prospective members
everyone has the right to do what they want in their own groups. Our shih tzu group has been going for 14 years and is a small select group of people who are truly interested in this breed.
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Cherrill <cdjamieson@...>
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#4391
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Re: E.U. Issues with Transfers?
I don¡¯t know what the message is that is sent to transferred members is very clear about what is happening and apparently has a link for people to opt out of the transfer. We lost 2-300 people in
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Sharon Villines
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#4390
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Re: Require info from prospective members
I was joining a bunch of timebank lists to day to invite people to join my new [email protected] list. I found myself not joining any list that wanted to approve of me. I don¡¯t think you can
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Sharon Villines
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#4389
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Re: Require info from prospective members
we want our group to be as safe as possible.? If a person is not willing to give us a bit of background info *before* we approve them, then we have no way of knowing whether they are truly interested
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Cherrill <cdjamieson@...>
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#4388
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+help messages
I sent to +help for one of my groups and I received the list of links below that is essentially an expanded view of the message footer. I was expecting it to return information about groups.io. This
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Sharon Villines
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#4387
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Re: Require info from prospective members
As an email groups fan, why do you need to know this before approving the membership? Why not just ask them to introduce themselves in their first message and address these questions. And do you save
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Sharon Villines
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#4386
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Re: E.U. Issues with Transfers?
On 02/13/2018 02:58 PM, Jim Betz wrote: I am not a lawyer. So take what I say with a grain of salt. > ? So I'm hearing that if you transfer a yahoo group with members in the E.U. that > you are
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toki
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#4385
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Re: E.U. Issues with Transfers?
As Dave Sergeant said earlier, this is all about the GDPR EU regulations that come into force on 25 May 2018.? As they are from the EU legislation, they are extremely complex and are of the classic
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Tim Johnson
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#4384
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Re: Explain Special Notice?
Elizabeth, I had created it in Member notices rather than as a New topic. Problem Ah. The Member Notices are implicitly special - they go out to the selected member(s) directly, without regard to
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Shal Farley
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#4383
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Re: Pending Subscription
#membership
In many cases I¡¯ve resorted to admitting the member and resending the questionnaire afterwards. It seems to have a better chance of reaching them that way. Our group is NuM so there¡¯s not much
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#4382
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Re: Explain Special Notice?
Thanks, Shai. I had created it in Member notices rather than as a New topic. Problem solved. Now I just have to reset them all to no email! Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Bentley
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#4381
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Re: Pending Subscription
#membership
Shal, I looked at the Most Recent Successful Delivery, and it said Message; Welcome notice: Welcome Message, Delivered 11:46 am. Most Recent Unsuccessful Attempt: No email deliveries Recent Bounces:
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Don Grass
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#4380
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Re: Require info from prospective members
In our pending membership, we send a questionnaire to the pending subscriber asking about 5 questions: one of them being exactly what your question is; along with 'how did you hear about our group',
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Cherrill <cdjamieson@...>
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#4379
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Re: Pending Subscription
#membership
Don, I sent a Resend Pending Membership Notice to the last two people that want My guess: spam folder. In the pending list click on the person's row (anywhere except the checkbox). Then have a look at
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Shal Farley
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#4378
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