On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:10 PM, Earl Novendstern wrote:

We have a number of older people and I am worried that the step of accepting membership would not happen easily.

Have you given your members advance warning of the migration to Groups.io? That will help reduce the risk of "what's all this about"?

Chris

You have a couple of options. Assuming the "wrong email address" belongs to you and you can receive email at the address, you can just change the address in your Account settings, but this will affect ALL groups using this email address. The better alternative may be to join the group with the intended address and then promote that user to Owner of the group. You can then either demote or remove the original email you didn't want to use as Owner. Just think carefully through the steps to avoid getting yourself into more problems.

If you don't have access to that original address, you have a problem that will be more difficult to resolve and may need to contact [email protected].

Dave Rypma (just another user)?

Margery;? I can not say that have had that problem, but it took a little time for the group Page to settle after I paid to upgrade.? Keep in mind, those of us who moved before last week did not experiance any of the issues that now are happening.? I think if Mark had known that Yahoo was going to drop the knife, he would have ramped up for the wave that hit.
As an example, I had several free groups that I upgraded two weeks ago and moved them within days.? Yesterday I tried to start the migration request - having already added the agent and adding them as a moderator - and can not seem to get the migration request to move beyond the "we will accept the invite no need to send another."? I will let it sit and try later today.
Net Net, send the note to support and I am sure they will reply when they can or keep checking the migration page for your request update.

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A corollary to that is the question: "How can I restore a lost attachment to a message in groups.io?"

?That assumes that the attached file can be found:

• Yahoo can list messages with attachments so they can be downloaded one-by-one
• PG Offline can batch download attachments along with messages (curious, if PBO can get the attachments, why can't Easy Transfer?)
• The message author or other member may have the file
• It may be found somewhere else in the cloud

I just started looking into this question when I saw your topic...

Tom

Does migration take a snapshop, then start sucking bits?

OR

We see migration start, approve all the held messages, and migration catches them too?

Hi All......
Newbie here........since yesterday I have not been able to post to any of my Yahoo Groups. ?Is anyone else having that problem or is it just me?

Thanks,
Chuck, CABGx3

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For 2 days now? I have been waiting on the transfer-? from Yahoogroups?? to iogroups??? I went to check and it said I transition in process or finished,, ? I went and checked on IO groups and nothing is changed On the bottom of the page it had this ? We will attempt to process this transfer as soon as we can. You can pay $200 to expedite the transfer I have paid the yearly fee of $110.00 So do I need to pay again ??????? I am getting so confused --? Help please ? Steph

There's no easy way to do what you want.? You'd need to put the 'missing' messages in a file and upload that - awkward.

Are there instructions for doing this?? Shutting down a group for what could possibly be weeks doesn't work for many groups.
Thanks.

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I think you want to say not when you talk about this to your members.?

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:28 AM, Susan B wrote:

I’m thinking about posting our old messages that reside in a folder on my computer to our new group here. I know they would all post under my name. But would that work? There might be 5000 or more messages.

Also can someone point me to instructions on how to moderate and approve or reject messages?

Yes, that would work and you understand the side effects.? If you forward them and include message headers, you could even use the search function later to find postings by their information, if that would be of any use.? Might make the message archive a bit ugly though.

There's a good overview of the pending/approval process at /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Approving---moderating-a-message

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:21 AM, y@es wrote:

What happens with all of #5's posts?
Do they migrate as well so they can be approved on GIO, or are they lost or?

I don't think pending messages on YG are copied.? They'd need to be resent to the GIO group.? It may not be the best way to handle it, but there's no reason they can't post to your new group while the transfer is in process.

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:10 AM, reachingout wrote:

no new messages archived

IF that's true (no way to know for sure until the date), then it would be best to disable posting on the YG.? Everyone would need to wait until the transfer is complete, then use the new group.? There's no easy way to do what you want.? You'd need to put the 'missing' messages in a file and upload that - awkward.

Once the new group is created, you could do all the steps up to giving the go ahead at any time.? That might save some time down the road.

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We have an absentee owner in one group that I’m moving here as a free basic group. We want to preserve a message archive that’s very valuable to our members. I’m thinking about posting our old messages that reside in a folder on my computer to our new group here. I know they would all post under my name. But would that work? There might be 5000 or more messages.

Also can someone point me to instructions on how to moderate and approve or reject messages? In a group that the transfer agent is working on, all our members are moderated all the time to prevent incorrect advice from being posted.

Thank you.
Susan B

So we'll:

1. Enable Moderation on the Y!G site
2. Request the migration
3. Wait, as GIO's guru[s] are busier than Santa's helpers
4. Migration starts, but from some reports it may take several days. (Not surprising given Y!G is down to one last 28.8Kb modem to talk to the world....)
5. Meanwhile, posts stack up in the queue on Y!G.
6. Migration complete.

What happens with all of #5's posts?
Do they migrate as well so they can be approved on GIO, or are they lost or?

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:10 AM, Earl Novendstern wrote:

When we? transfer our Yahoo membership to group.io, do the group.io members need to "accept" membership or are they automatically enrolled in group.io.

An account is created for each member transferred.? If they only use email, they're done.? If they want to use the site, for files and such, see /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Logging-In? You can include a link to that page if you want since it's accessible to the public.

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The group managers forum Wiki says groups over 500 members are not free, but Mark has changed that. He removed the 500-member limit for free accounts, for now. He will have a pricing plan initiated down the road but not at this time.

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wiki link with wrong info:

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/FAQ-on-Moving-from-YahooGroups

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Mark's update/correction:

Revised pricing:

Mod’s note: Fixed! ?I appreciate your heads up.?
Frances