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Re: New group not functioning

 

I tried posting as the new added member (alternate email), and same thing, nothing happened. The post just disappeared, not acknowledged, not rejected and not forwarded.

* Orest
Re: [email protected] isn't a member of my Yahoo group

 

Step 4:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups#Step-4-E28094-Give-the-Go-Ahead-for-the-Transfer

The advice that the experienced are saying - go step by step!

Frances

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Re: [email protected] isn't a member of my Yahoo group

Edward Borg
 

Someone in my Yahoo group?
What is step 4?
I already have a moderator in that group.
Re: sticky messages only in the topic secction?

 

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Frances wrote: Something to request on Beta when things quiet down?

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I think it could be very useful, but maybe it isn?t feasable technically, I have no idea.

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Victoria
Re: sticky messages only in the topic secction?

 

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 04:53 PM, Victoria wrote:
In the topic section they stay on top of all. In the messages section they don?t although they don?t lose their importance and should be noticed there too.
While I agree with you wholeheartedly the concept of a Sticky Topic only has meaning to members who use the web UI as a matter of routine. (FWIW that is my own personal preference.)

Subscribers who work mainly or exclusively by email (and anecdotal evidence points to this being the widespread preference) won't have sticky topics permanently at the top of their Inboxes; they will either slide into oblivion off the bottom or simply be deleted.

I certainly wouldn't argue against the topic being sticky in Messages view, but seriously doubt if it would greatly increase members' awareness of them, unless you have managed to get your members to work mainly or solely from the web UI. (If you did, please tell me how because I might try to copy it!)

Chris
Re: New group not functioning

 

I can add a member, so some functions work.

* Orest
Re: New group not functioning

 

I checked the Activity page.

There is no activity listed, since the import.

* Orest
Re: Acceptance time frame for [email protected] account #transfer

 

Updated timeline for transfer of my Yahoo group: about 5,000 messages and 267 members as of 10/24 0945 ET:
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Tue 10/22 0900 ET
Purchased Premium Plan, requested a transfer from Yahoo Groups, and invited [email protected]
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Tue 10/22 1844 ET
Received email from groups.io to make [email protected] a YG moderator, did so and gave the transfer go ahead
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Thu 10/24 0945 ET
Your group is awaiting import into Groups.io. There are about 198 groups ahead of it in the queue. [Step 3 of 4]

Fri 10/25 1200 ET
Your group is awaiting import into Groups.io. There are about 101 groups ahead of it in the queue. [Step 3 of 4]

Sat 10/26 1200 ET
Your group is awaiting import into Groups.io. There are about 77 groups ahead of it in the queue. [Step 3 of 4]

Mark and the groups.io team are running as fast they can, please be patient with them. They have responded to the Yahoo debacle like no other company has.
Re: New group not functioning

 

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On 26/10/2019 11:33, Frances wrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:26 AM, Orest Skrypuch wrote:
Are they a 9-5 M-F kind of thing?
I think more like 9-9-9!
Hmm.


Would it help if someone else joined your group? Sent a message or two to your group to see what is happening??
If you are moderating messages, you could make sure it had Test in the subject line.


In trying to post a message to the group, once the message is sent, nothing happens. There is no bounced message back. There is no acknowledgement on the site. There is no echo of that message to the group. it just disappears as if it had never been sent.

I have sent several test messages. They are just gone. I scoured the various settings, to see if something was turned "OFF", but it doesn't seem so. A little frustrating!

The odd thing, is that the group was all working fine before the auto-transfer from YG. I posted a bunch of test messages, and they were all sent out fine.

I'll try adding another member, to see if that wakes up the software, or see if I can actually do that.

* Orest
Re: message from Owner but with personal name

 

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Frances,

I understand what you are saying. But sometimes owners and moderators want to send a common message which should not appear as sent by this one single person.

Therefore I was quite happy to see there is a possiblity to send from the owner-address, and then disappointed to realize it doesn?t work properly. The owner-address doesn?t even show up as sender. Only in the mail it shows.

As I understand this issue was brought up before; but I also wouldn?t bring this up again in beta, at least not right now. Mark is too busy getting all these transfers regulated in time.

Victoria

P.S.

Frances, you really did a good deed writing this transfer instruction manual!

Re: message from Owner but with personal name

 

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:57 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
I only need to post as Group Owner when there is? "Group Management" matter to raise, and I think it is valid to expect that posts from a group owner should be easily distinguishable? from run-of-the-mill chatter, which is why I raised the issue 18 months ago.

A Group_Management hashtag can help, but that is much less obvious in an email delivery than it is on the web UI.
Apologies! You are right.?

Frances
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Re: message from Owner but with personal name

 

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 04:43 PM, Frances wrote:
Just don't send messages from your owner email address!
Victoria is not doing that anyway; look at the screenshots; she composed "Test" using the web UI with her "owner" address selected, but when it was eventually posted it just appeared as being from Victoria with the white cat displayed. No sign that it was a Group Owner message whatsoever. (FWIW her subscribers will see it as having come from the Group Owner address, but only if they look for it.)

I only need to post as Group Owner when there is? "Group Management" matter to raise, and I think it is valid to expect that posts from a group owner should be easily distinguishable? from run-of-the-mill chatter, which is why I raised the issue 18 months ago.

A Group_Management hashtag can help, but that is much less obvious in an email delivery than it is on the web UI.

Chris
Re: sticky messages only in the topic secction?

 

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:53 AM, Victoria wrote:
In the topic section they stay on top of all. In the messages section they don?t although they don?t lose their importance and should be noticed there too.

Many people like to read messages as they come in and have the group?s functions set correspondently.

Victoria
Agreed. That would be a useful improvement. Both are standalone messages - both are currently locked so no new messages can accumulate.
Something to request on Beta when things quiet down?

Frances
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sticky messages only in the topic secction?

 

There some very important messages made sticky:

locked sticky FAQ on transferring from YahooGroups #howtoguide #transfer

By Frances ¡¤ Oct 24

And this one:
 locked sticky A group for SERIOUS group owners

By Shal Farley ¡¤ 06.10.2014

In the topic section they stay on top of all. In the messages section they don?t although they don?t lose their importance and should be noticed there too.

Many people like to read messages as they come in and have the group?s functions set correspondently.

Victoria

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Re: Messages by Owner

Jan Smith
 

Thank you Su.? I am new to this and just couldn't find what you are describing, but I did go in and Edit the 2 message I want at the top, and then I could choose "sticky."??

Jan
Re: yG Privacy Dashboard download #yahooprivacydashboard #ioimportpl

 

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Did you check boxes for things that you never used, like news, for instance? There were really very few things out of the long list you see that I wanted. I noticed I got a separate reply from Yahoo for each box I checked. If I had checked any box where I had no data I would expect to get a reply saying that there was no data to download.

Susan B



On Oct 26, 2019, at 8:20 AM, Tom H <ve3meo@...> wrote:

But when I logged in and got to the download page:

Your Yahoo Groups data

Your download request has been completed, but no data of this type is available in your account.

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Re: message from Owner but with personal name

 
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Just don't send messages from your owner email address! I own quite a few groups. Don't think I have ever sent from there. I have received from there but its about problems or queries about the group, not the topic.

Email from the group+owner's email address doesn't appear on your group.

Use your proper login email address -?
If you don't know which is your email address - your group ID - look at the bottom of any email from Groups.io
For more info, see the wiki -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home

Frances
Re: Is there a uitlity/test/browse/practice group?

 

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:50 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
Although I am not in any sense an "owner" of this group I would say 1000 times NO to it being used as any sort of test - bed for new users of Groups.io.
I'm inclined to agree with Chris here. GMF is a technical support forum and we really do need to focus on the needs of group Owners, especially now.

That said, I would have no objection to people using my new IHateYahooGroups group as a "playground" if they promise to remain somewhat on-topic with their posts. The whole concept of that group was transitional (and whimsical) from the get-go, and I plan to delete it sometime around the end of the December anyway.?

Regards,
Bruce
Re: message from Owner but with personal name

 

Hi, Chris and Duane,
no, there is no signature. I choose the owner address:


Then I click "Send"
And this i what appears:


There isn?t even a hint that this is an owner message. My avatar and my name show up, that?s all. Or am I doing something wrong?
Victoria

Re: yG Privacy Dashboard download #yahooprivacydashboard #ioimportpl

 

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<p>Yes you can. You will have to email those to Mark. I did this with my mail man transfer in 2016. And the transfer happened in a few days. This was before the yahoo debacle so give it time.</p>
<p>Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP. .</p>
<p>On 26 Oct 2019, at 6:17, Susan B wrote:</p>
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<p>Lena<br />I just requested a download of my information from yahoo. You said you received all messages and files from groups you belong to. I read up on what mbox format is. Is this something you think I can upload to a group here? We want to put all our old posts, which contain very valuable information, into our new group here either on the message board or in the files. Message board is preferred. We were going to just start forwarding each old message to the message board here, starting with the oldest. It would be a daunting and very lengthy task.</p>
<p>Susan B</p>
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