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Re: Does Groups.io keep a record of invitations?
#invitation
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 04:42 PM, JJ Krawczyk wrote:
I have a glob waiting for approval and those do not seem to show up anywhere yet. It would be nice if they could be in the same place with a "waiting approval" status but I believe they'll show up there once they are approved and go out.True, that would be nice. That anomaly is because of the limiter on number of invitations sent at one time. You can input a lot more and you must wait. See this for more details and a link to a post about why. /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/20-Invitations-Limit Frances ? -- FAQ on Moving from YahooGroups GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers |
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Re: Does Groups.io keep a record of invitations?
#invitation
Yes Groups.io allows you to track whom you have invited.?
In Admin, Invites. Two tabs - an invitation to be sent with a customizable section and the second tab is Sent Invitations. Email addresses, date sent, status. Sortable list. You can resend from here as well using the Actions toggle. Cancel / Remove Invite is a bit cryptic (to my mind). You can remove the Invite but it doesn't remove their membership. It is just to tidy up the list. See also?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Inviting-new-members Frances -- FAQ on Moving from YahooGroups GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers |
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Does Groups.io keep a record of invitations?
#invitation
Just wondering, 'cause I actually haven't sent any yet.? (My group is at Stage 3 of 4 in the transfer; a few dozen members have signed up at GIO; the rest are awaiting automatic transfer; that's okay, I can be patient.)
When you send an invitation to join a Yahoo group it just sorta disappears into the ether.? You'll see the feeble confirmation that "You can sent 99 more invitations today" (or whatever), but you have no record of to whom invitations were sent and when. Does GIO keep better track? That's a feature I'd really value. |
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Re: "Average Pace" of transfers
20 to 30 a day seems a rough rule of thumb.? It's hard to gauge without knowing how many group owners are paying $200 to leapfrog the queue.? I didn't, and my little group's saga is below.
My understanding is that GIO "harvested" all material from our Yahoo site at Step 2, so any new material posted there won't be transferred.? That's okay.? Whenever I post I make sure to send it to both Groupname@...?and [email protected].? (Those are fake names, don't use 'em.)? And if another member posts and omits one or the other address, I send a perfunctory reply and make sure to send it to both.? It's a pain but tolerable.? My annoyance is confined to a perfidious Yahoo, not to the dedicated GIO team! Sat 10/19/2019 Alerted members of my group about Yahoo¡¯s plans and discussed options (Google groups. Groups.io, Facebook, plain email, dissolution).? People liked my description of Groups.io especially the ability to preserve ten years¡¯ worth of content. Sun 10/20/2019 Created group at Groups.io.? Signed up for Premium and paid $110 (which doubled two days later).? Sent invitation for [email protected] to join our Yahoo group.? Heard nothing. ?
Fri 10/25/2019 Invitation was finally accepted.? (Whether it was Sunday¡¯s or Thursday¡¯s, I don¡¯t know.)? I swiftly upgraded [email protected] to moderator and gave the go-ahead for transfer.
Sat 10/26/2019
Sun 10/27/2019 Finally progressed to step 3 of 4.? Place in queue #644.
Mon 10/28/2019 #633.
Tue 10/29/2019 #618.
Wed 10/30/2019 #584.
Thur 10/31/2019 #553.? "The pace does seem to be picking up but we¡¯re still looking at 2-4 more weeks if this continues."
Fri 11/1/2019 #543
Sat 11/2/2019 #521
(Caveat:? I didn't necessarily sample these at the same time of day, so interpret 'em accordingly.) ? |
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Re: Emails from my vBulletin Forum not appearing
#bouncedemails
#email
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 01:37 PM, Peter Walker wrote:
Strangely, the emails are not arriving on groups.io from the forum.Have you checked the Activity log of the group?? I suspect you'll find "Non-member xxxx@ domain.com attempted to send message "yyy zzz" via email" for the emails sent to the group.? If so, you won't e able to use this until you can add that email address as a member.? If you have a paid group, you can do a Direct Add.? On an unpaid group, you can only send an invite or have that email address subscribe.? An invitation or a subscription request both require replies from the other party though. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Emails from my vBulletin Forum not appearing
#bouncedemails
#email
I run a vBulletin 4.2.5 based Forum and I have been using a YahooGroup for many years to send out new forum messages to members via eMail.?
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Re: Group Settings - Only Moderators Can Post?
This is possibly an issue of semantics; what the developers behind mean by announcements and what others mean are not necessarily the same thing. When you say 'other groups', are you referring to groups on or somewhere else? Better, perhaps, to look at what you yourself interpret as or would wish from? an announcement, then look at the tools provided to see how best to meet the requirement. Ignore the labels applied to the tools To the best of my knowledge only has the two special cases, that is setting a group to 'Announcements', which is a shorthand for 'owners/moderators only', and 'Special Notice' which is a per-topic thing.? There's nothing special about the messages or topics in an announcement group, beyond the exalted status and wisdom of the moderators (?). Delivery, reading etc. obeys all of the preferences set by the subscriber; so if, for instance, they chose to receive digests rather than individual messages there will be a built-in delay before they see the message. This is fine for general stuff and having the specific group allows members to apply their own filtering in mail clients for instance, or for non-email users to have a specific place to go to check up. You can also fine-tune the various delivery and reply options of course. Sometimes you might need to ensure that a message is received urgently, and this is where checking the 'Send as a special notice' box when adding a new topic comes in. This overrides pretty much all of the delivery options apart from 'No Email'. There's a topic in the forum on special notices, /g/GroupManagersForum/message/3933 which is worth a quick read. Something else you can consider for modifying the behaviour of topics are hashtags. For instance, by creating a hashtag with attributes 'Moderators only' and 'Locked immediately' you have a way for moderators to post what is in effect an announcement.? Hope that helps at least a little! Derek |
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Re: New Group Settings
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:43 AM, GBstamps wrote:
Clearly I have not set up the groups settings correctlyIn looking at your group's home page, I've also found another thing you may want to change.? You have it set as an Announcement type (under Spam Control, Announcement Group is selected).? In this case, only moderators can post/reply.? If you want interaction among members, you should change that.? Since all message are moderated (require approval) before posting, you shouldn't have any problems. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: Email addresses
On Nov 2, 2019, at 6:31 AM, Lawrence <Lawrence@...> wrote:Join all groups (or just the groups you want to 'split and move') with both email addresses (accounts). If you are an Owner or Moderator set both email addresses with the privileges you desire. Then, either: -set one email address in each group to "No Mail" (or "Special Notices" if "No Mail" is not permitted). OR -unsubscribe one email address from each group as you desire. I suggest the former. ALTERNATELY Change your email address (account) in the groups you want to 'split and move' |
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Re: Two problems with emails being sent by our group
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:46 AM, Harvey Morgan wrote:
This is done to work with email services that require DMARC compliance.? You can read about it on the Help page, /static/help#dmarc? It won't interfere with replies if they're done with a modern browser or online. That would be the email service.? Most of the time emails from Groups.io are almost instantaneous. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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