On 10/16/19 11:42 AM, Kathleen Taormina wrote:

The message says this evening and then says Note: groups.io will be
down for maintenance this evening, starting at 2AM Pacific Time (9AM
Friday) today is Wednesday??

My ISP ended confusion by not saying "evening" and instead using "early morning" on all {post-midnight} their maintenance warnings.

Hi

You might check out this page in the GMF wiki for an overview of setting up and preferences for your group -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:44 AM, Kathleen Taormina wrote:

The message says this evening and then says?Note: groups.io will be down for maintenance this evening, starting at 2AM Pacific Time (9AM Friday)
today is Wednesday??

In his original notice () Mark said it would be Thursday 10/17 (i.e.: early tomorrow morning in the US).

Groups.io is a global service and depending on your time zone this could be Wednesday evening, etc.

Not sure why he has Friday in the banner.

Bruce

Quite; I have posted a query about this on beta.

Chris

You may find groups.io to be acceptable. When replying from the web site it does not by default quote anything. I use 3rd party email programs so I can choose to quote or not. Phone email users may find it difficult to trim a message reply though.

Donald

The message says this evening and then says?Note: groups.io will be down for maintenance this evening, starting at 2AM Pacific Time (9AM Friday)
today is Wednesday??

Hello:

I'm part of the Great Yahoo err Verizon Diaspora seeking a new home.

One of the best features of Yahoo was blocking all HTML crapola giving the list users legible, readable, text. Some searching here seems to indicate that exists here in some form. What should I know about that?

A perennial issue is repliers taking no effort to trim their quoted text. I once set up a small Mailman list that rejected any post already containing the Mailman dot.sig; is that viable here?

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:08 AM, Walter S. Arnold wrote:

In our case the files and photos belong to the group, so that isn't an issue; but we have the white boxes/empty place holders, and for the past two days haven't been able to see any of those.

Walter -- Yep. Unfortunately, access to Yahoo servers is something that is not within groups.io's control. If you can't see it using Yahoo's own web interface, odds are the transfer agent won't be able to, either. For what it's worth, it seems to affect only files and/or photos...the message archive is usually accessible.

The best time to initiate a transfer is when Yahoo is performing well. Transferring a group costs a one-time payment of $110 (i.e.: one year of Premium access). If you're willing to roll the dice and pay up front, I'd go ahead and get things set up, get the agent invited to your Yahoo group, and then click the "Give Go Ahead to Transfer" button as soon as you notice that Yahoo has gotten their act together.

In the past, Yahoo has usually fixed their problems eventually; but given the recent notice who knows if they will do so this time around.

Good luck,
Bruce

Alan,

Hi I did report this some time last year. My tests suggest that it is
a function of the use of a smartphone as a ''terminal'' ...

No, the same problem occurs with any email interface.

The issue is that the footer links are formed as mailto: links - links which open your computer's default mail program to form an outbound message. The link only contains the To address (the group) and the Subject text.

Many email interfaces do not support including message body content in a mailto link, so Groups.io does not include that. Besides, it would typically make the link huge.

Using the Reply function of one's email interface is typically the easier way to do it, rather than having to copy/paste any quote you want manually.

Shal


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Thank you for the clear explanation. I found I could download the entire member list from the Yahoo group in .csv format, so I have that saved.

In our case the files and photos belong to the group, so that isn't an issue; but we have the white boxes/empty place holders, and for the past two days haven't been able to see and of those.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 10:36 AM, Walter S. Arnold wrote:

I have a migration question- when we migrate a yahoo group, does it automatically send groups.io invites to all members?

When you click on Set Up New Transfer, you'll find a series of checkboxes. If you UNcheck the Transfer Members box, you can delay migrating the members.?

There are no invitations involved in the transfer process...if their accounts are not in Bouncing status in Y!G, they are automatically subscribed/shanghaied (and sent a notice allowing them to opt out). If you want invitations sent out instead, simply upload a flat text file, one email address per line, to send the invitations later (i.e.: outside of the transfer process).

Important Note:? Ownership of files, photos and other group content cannot be assigned to someone who doesn't have a groups.io account. So if you migrate the content without the members, they will lose "ownership" of it, and it will all be reassigned to the group owner. Depending on the situation in your group, this may or may not be objectionable; but generally speaking I don't recommend it.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

And of course, typical Yahoo, the announcement on the top of groups pages includes a "learn more" link which is a broken link.

I have a migration question- when we migrate a yahoo group, does it automatically send groups.io invites to all members? We are testing, want to migrate all the message archives and save the member list but not invite the members yet; we we don't want to do that once we see everything is set up the way we want.

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I thought it might be interesting to some to watch the numbers as Yahoo Groups "restructure".? As of a few minutes ago:? Newest group member number - 4,322,225; Newest site member number - 2,015,650; Visible group count - 13,224.

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:52 AM, Raymond Knapp wrote:

Now I want to change it to a subscription model the lowest cost one. How can I do this?

Raymond -- Go to Admin>Upgrade and click on the blue "View/Change Plan" button.

Regards,
Bruce

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If you go to yahoo groups you can see the banner above a group image

An owner of a Yahoo Group that I'm a member of recently posted this as notice of his intent to migrate to groups.io:



Summarizing, Y!G seems to be converting entirely to a mailing list service, eliminating their online resources (file/photo storage, polls, calendaring, etc). Even the message archives will be eliminated.

If legitimate, I expect a lot of folks will be wanting to transfer soon.

FYI,
Bruce
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After receiving an email in an email client on a cellphone or computer the following happens. If I click Reply to Group at the bottom of the email next to View Online the reply removes the email content. It also removes all prior replies in the thread.

However if I click Reply to All from my email client the content is maintained. Is there a way to change this so the content does not get removed?

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There will also be an X or blank if the picture was a link to a picture on the web somewhere and it is no longer available. Ray

Shal Farley

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:34 AM

Judi,

> You SHOULD be able to download a photo by hovering your mouse over the
> photo and using the download icon (right bottom corner) to download.
> THAT DOES NOT WORK FOR ME.? If you figure out how to download a photo,
> please inform the group.

Please inform the Y!GMF group:


If you're seeing blank squares where your images should be, welcome to the crowd. This has happened many times over the last few years. In the past these incidents resolved over time and the photos reappeared. Whether that will hold true this time I can't guess.

Some messages earlier in GMF indicate that the problem also affects the Easy Group Transfer agent's ability to copy a Yahoo Group's photos as well.

Shal