Re: Group transfer questions
Thanks for your reply, Shal. My notion was to transfer just the messages (and just the one time), not the members (now or ever). From that point going forward I was planning on emailing my new
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Stephanie Stevens
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#440
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Re: Group transfer questions
Stephanie, Yes, if you request that. Have a look at the steps involved in the group copy ("transfer"). After you've invited the transfer agent, it has joined, and you've promoted it to moderator then
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Shal Farley
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#439
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Re: Group transfer questions
Hi Shal, I'm of course familiar with you from the Yahoo GMF ... thanks for all you do there. Since I greatly value your advice, let me get your take on this ... Yahoo's been having a bad week and a
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Stephanie Stevens
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Re: Group transfer questions
Maria, I've wished that too. But no, the transfer action is something I think requires manual intervention by Mark (he receives the message from you, and starts the program that does it). I doubt he's
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Shal Farley
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#437
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Re: Group transfer questions
Here's another question: can you transfer the group over and have it keep updating as new posts are sent to the old group so that you have a back-up but wait to move or activate the members?? There
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Maria
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#436
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Re: Group transfer questions
Anita, Mark hasn't mentioned it, that I'm aware of. It would be a bit tricky as polls in Groups.io are implemented as messages (with features for voting) rather than as a separate section of the
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Shal Farley
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#435
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Re: Group transfer questions
Another group transfer question: Can Yahoo polls be transferred to a Groups.io list? Anita C.
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Anita Crafton
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#434
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Re: Group transfer questions
Dano, Only off list. I gave him some groups to test, they mostly worked. Some mysteries to fix yet. Shal
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Shal Farley
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Re: Group transfer questions
Shal - I haven't seen anything recently but could have missed something. Like you, I'm waiting on the ability to move Files and Photos. Has Mark said anymore about progress on this? Dano Shal wrote:
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D R Stinson
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#432
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Re: Group transfer questions
Maria, I wrote: And, of course, I do plan to send a Special Notice to the Yahoo Group before starting the transfer - perhaps a day or so before, to give the Yahoo Group members a heads-up on what's
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Shal Farley
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#431
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Re: Group transfer questions
Maria, If you customize the group's Welcome message before the transfer then it will be sent to each member as they are added to the Groups.io group. On the Settings page, see the tab for Member
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Shal Farley
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#430
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Re: Group transfer questions
Thank you all!? So once the group was transferred how did the first new posts start coming in? Did you tell members the new email address to use for new posts? The new URL to log into?? Whats a good
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Maria
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Re: Group transfer questions
I¡¯ve moved several groups and I¡¯ve got more to move. It¡¯s easy as 1-2-3. The only problem I had was with one group that had a LOT of files and those all had to be moved manually. Otherwise, it
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Shadow Grafix <shadowgrafix@...>
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Re: Group transfer questions
Easy. The instructions are here -?/static/transfer See the specific link at the bottom of the page. Mark transferred my group and later my archives from YahooGroups. I had made sure
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Frances
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Re: Group transfer questions
Super easy. Take a look at the steps at /static/yahootransfer Basically, you invite [email protected] to be a member of your YG, then make it a moderator. Your YG group messages (w/o
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Jim Poston
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#426
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Group transfer questions
Hi!? is there anyone who has moved a group over from Y! Who might be able to share their experience with us?? Specifically:? - was the transition easy and what did it entail? - did members manage
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Maria
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Re: Moderators Email
Jim, Thanks for the comprehensive rundown on what worked and what didn't! I wonder if that would work better through the web site Join... (or Request...) button. But no matter since you've chosen a
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Shal Farley
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Re: Moderators Email
Confirmed. But I would rather do as much as I can via email because it's so much faster. I'm not allowed to join using the listname+owner address, at least the address doesn't get subscribed via
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Jim Poston
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Re: Moderators Email
Jim, I wrote: Or, you might try editing your Profile to add the group's +owner address as an Email Alias for your account. Shal
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Shal Farley
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Re: Moderators Email
Jim, From the New Topic page you can select the +owner address in the From field (if you're a group moderator). You can't do that from the Reply links, as far as I know. I don't know if you can do
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Shal Farley
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#421
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