Gina,

The number 5 comes from the number of people participating in the new
group. :-)

I don't know what was normal in the Yahoo Group. A high lurker to current participant ratio isn't all that uncommon.

I'm a little surprised that it doesn't "snowball" based on people replying to the posts that are being made.

I suppose it makes sense to double-check the Members list (at Groups.io) to see what delivery the transferred members typically have. If they were mostly No Email lurkers in your Yahoo Group that could be part of the problem.

Yes, I sent a message to the Yahoogroup.

I'd send that message to the Groups.io group. Depending on the nature of your group, maybe take a jovial / cajoling stance to it. "Well, a few of you have joined in, Thanks! The rest of you lurking out there, please join in!"

Or, if you can identify a few individual members who were recently active in the Yahoo Group, but have "gone silent", you could try contacting them off-list to see if they can tell you why.

Shal


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Nope, only have 1 email address and login for GIO. How do I initiate a transfer? I thought I did. It is paid for, so should be in the records, somewhere.

Oh, and I never got a reply from 'Bruce'.

Joe - W7RKN

Brian,

Besides emailing [GroupName][email protected] what did I forget
to say?

After they send in their +subscribe command Groups.io will reply with a request for confirmation. The person must receive, read, and respond to that confirmation request. If not, the subscribe command has no effect.

It doesn't even get logged in the group's Activity log. Which I've argued is a bug, or at least a mistake, but that's how it currently is.

So tell them to keep their eyes open for that confirmation request. Including in their Inbox, Spam or even Trash folder.

How did my lucky sole member manage to do it?

Probably noticed the confirmation request in their Inbox, and followed the instructions.

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Joe,

When I go to look at when it will be transfered, all I see is my Drake
group, nothing about the Heathkit group.

Possibly you were logged in using a different email address when you set up the Heathkit transfer. You can only see the transfers you set up with the account you are currently logged in with.

Or, as Bruce suggested, perhaps you didn't actually initiate a transfer for that group.

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Thanks, Shal.

The number 5 comes from the number of people participating in the new group. :-)

Yes, I had unchecked that box -- to have groups.io notify them.

I wanted everything to be working properly before it did that.?

Yes, I sent a message to the Yahoogroup.

thanks,
g

Thank you, Frances. I did that two days ago.

?

No idea what is happening.

?

tx
g

Gina,

A suggestion.?Just post a short message. De-scarify it! Something like:

Since YahooGroups has changed its service, we have moved!

To visit our new home, just click on this link to go to our new homepage.

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Hi Gina,

Only about 5 seem to have gotten the notice from groups.io....out of
1000 original members.

I'm curious, where does that number 5 come from?

If I remember correctly, you said you unchecked the box to have Groups.io notify them during the transfer. So did you send them a notice by some other means?

I've posted several messages in our yahoogroup—explaining how to
interact with the group, set up a password, etc.—and few respond.

Well, since they are now in your Members list in Groups.io, you could always post messages in your group here. They'll probably catch on pretty fast.

Maybe they are busy...or maybe they're not receiving any of the mail?

My Yahoo Groups seem to be forwarding messages pretty quickly during the last few days - a few seconds to a few minutes. So I'm not really sure.

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I miss a feature that is in Yahoo, but isn't in Groups.IO
When you enter groups.io Photo Albums, they are sorted alphabetically.
The Sort choices are sort by title (alphabetically up or down) and Sort by Created date (up or down).
The default on Yahoo Photostream was "Most recent shows first".
When you click on "Albums" the sort order is "most recently changed on top".
I wish groups.io would offer those same options!

Argh, me again.

I don't know what's happening with my group.

Only about 5 seem to have gotten the notice from groups.io....out of 1000 original members.

I've posted several messages in our yahoogroup—explaining how to interact with the group, set up a password, etc.—and few respond.

I'm not sure what to do next.

Maybe they are busy...or maybe they're not receiving any of the mail?

?

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 05:21 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

If this is happening, you should see a series of notes in your Activity log along the lines of "non-member xxxxxxxx @ yyyy.com attempted to send message...".

Brian; Bruce mentioned the above in one of his posts; did you ever have a look in Activity to see if there was anything there along the lines Bruce suggested?

The "BT mail" point now seems likely to be wide of the mark if your prospective members are not in the UK, although it is not impossible for the same problem to arise with other mail providers. That is why having a look in your activity log might help us work out what is (and is not) happening. Your but the messages I'm seeing are exactly like that, at least for one person hints at your possibly seeing what we are referring to , but it isn't entirely clear. And it isn't a fail for this platform; the problem lies somewhere in the email routing before it gets to Groups.io.

Chris

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 05:33 PM, Fabien wrote:

If someone wants to reply to a topic, do they have to do it through the web portal, or can they do it directly from email?

Fabien -- If the recipient's email client honors normal reply-to fields in the incoming message header, simply clicking "reply" should route the response properly (i.e.: back to the group or the sender, depending on group settings).

Bruce

hello,
If someone wants to reply to a topic, do they have to do it through the web portal, or can they do it directly from email?

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 05:24 PM, Fabien wrote:

I embedded the link to have people donate through PayPal, using the wiki option. When I tried to click on the link after I am done, it does not work. Any suggestions?

Fabien -- The PayPal buttons that I host on our club's normal web site are implemented as a form. Forms, iframes, and several other html constructs are stripped from wiki pages (and your home page) upon save so they don't become vectors for phishing or the spreading of malware.?

Bruce

hello,
I embedded the link to have people donate through PayPal, using the wiki option. When I tried to click on the link after I am done, it does not work. Any suggestions?

BT - British Telecom

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Well I might have 40% emails for the eventual members.? But the guy who tried from the hospital is using a gmail address on an Android phone,? what exactly is "BT mail" mentioned above ?

BJ

On 11 Nov 2019 18:03, Shal Farley wrote:

Samuel wrote:

2. What other information is included in the message that is sent to
members who have been moved?? Can I see an example of such a message
anywhere, please?

I've just pasted one here:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Added-Message-for-YG-transfer

Aah, thanks.

- Do you know if the welcome message will form part of it, or will be sent separately?

I was also wondering if the members will be added directly or be given an "invitation" to join, since some of the older information that I have read seemed to indicate that that is what will happen. But I see from this example that members are added directly, and then given the option to unsubscribe.

Also, silly of me, but I have actually received such a message myself very recently when a group that I'm a member of, joined. The text of the message is:

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Hello,

The owner of the OLDGROUPNAME Yahoo Group has moved the group to Groups.io, a new Groups service. You have been subscribed to the new group using your email address MYMAILADDRESS. The title of the new group is NEWGROUPNAME user forum, and messages can be sent to it at [email protected]. The group homepage is located [here].

Groups at Groups.io are similar to Yahoo Groups, but we have several new features and we encourage you to explore the Groups.io website. If you have never registered with Groups.io before, your account will not have a password set yet. To log in, you can use the 'Email me a link to login' button to have a link emailed to you that will let you log into the website.

You do not have to do anything to continue being a member of this group. If you do not wish to be a member of NEWGROUPNAME, [click here to unsubscribe] and you will be unsubscribed immediately.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Cheers,
The Groups.io Team
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"Cheers"... cheers means "thanks" where I'm from. I realise it means "goodbye" in other parts of the world. :-)

Samuel