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Re: Question: removing a member for spam?
Duane wrote: It wasn't the email provider that unsubscribed them, it was GIO.? The providers return spam reports to GIO and it's up to them what to do.? GIO has decided that to preserve the reputation of the site, they'll unsubscribe those people.? All services should be doing this.? I believe the latest "rules" for email say that not honoring this and continuing to send emails is grounds for blacklisting the entire site/service.? In the early days, GIO was blacklisted by several services until Mark got everything straightened out and developed the unsubscribe system. D That's happened to me? two or three times. There is so much activity due to the Yahoo shutdown that even though I've not marked anything as Spam my provider (one of the AT&T domains managed by Yahoo) starts sending spam notices to GIO. GIO unsubscribes me and sends an email with a notice. I click the link and am instantly resubscribed. The question, however, is what triggered AT&T/Yahoo to send the notice to GIO. It wasn't me. It was either some algorithm or (my guess) some ignorant user that was marking everything as spam instead of simply clicking unsubscribe. This misguided action dates back to the 1990s when email spam became a problem. The conventional wisdom then was "Never click an Unsubscribe link. It just lets the spammers know they've hit a valid email address and you will get more spam." This doesn't take into account the side effects of newer anti-spam messages like the ones we're discussing. Sadly, mass user re-education is impossible. Larry |
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Re: Reading Digests on iPhones
I did a test last night to see and I believe it is because your member has her iPhone set for very large font.? I have my text set to zoomed and then largish font size. ?In current iOS ?Display and brightness ?Text size ? if I increase the font size too much with the slider in admin I get that scrunched look.? I tested it with full featured digest.? Attached are 3 photos. The first is the digest.?
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:44 AM, Lisa McIntyre wrote:
I would like to remove visibility of our old archive from yahoo groups...Lisa -- There is no way to "hide" the message archive, but... ...OR move it entirely to a subgroup. Is this possible?Yes. If you make a new primary group and upgrade it to Premium Yearly, you can use the Easy Group Transfer method to subsequently move your existing Yahoo Group into a subgroup of that primary group for archival purposes. Detailed instructions at?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups, see also?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/22617. Be very careful to select the SUBgroup when you initiate the transfer. There is no good way to move that content later, and some people have reported accidentally directing two or more transfer requests into the same destination and ending up with a mess. Bruce |
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Re: Separate Accounts (NOT Groups) on Same Home Page?
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 06:18 AM, Dan Rawson wrote:
I was actually NOT able to get this to work (different sign-ins on different tabs) in my environment (Firefox on Linux).? I found that the last sign-in "won", and all my tabs were using that login.? If there's a way to change the Firefox configuration so that it works, I'd love to know about it :-)Dan -- Browser tabs seem to share cookies. Try opening an entirely separate browser instance and see if that works better. In Chrome, I've found that I'm able to have two separate GIO accounts open at the same time if the second instance is opened in incognito mode...without resorting to any fancy add-ons. You might be able to do the same by opening a Private window in Firefox. Bruce |
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Re: Caution: "Content flagged as objectionable" message
On 14 Nov 2019 12:01, Pete Twissell wrote:
I have received a message, apparently from [email protected], <mailto:[email protected],>?informing me that a member of my group has flagged content as objectionable, including a link:Yes, when a member "reports" a file (i.e. flags it as problematic) by clicking the flag icon next to the file in the Files section, the report is sent to the group moderators, and the FROM is "[email protected]". The report can optionally contain text that the user typed. The report contains the e-mail address of the user who submits the report. Example: ------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, [e-mail of reporter] wishes to inform you that the following file: /g/[groupname]/files?id=1436857 is objectionable. They entered the following reason why it should be considered objectionable: asdfasdfasdf Please take a moment to review and take action as you feel appropriate for your group. Cheers, The Groups.io Team ----------------------------------------------------------- In my test, when I clicked the link in the report (which was for an image file), my browser prompted me to save it (and the browser correctly identified it as an image file. Unfortunately, following the link doesn't tell you where the file is located. This is really stupid (sorry, Groups.io developers!). So, you're going to have to write an e-mail to that person and ask him if he can remember which file he reported, and if so, what the location of the file is, and perhaps also apologise to him on behalf of Groups.io that the location of the file wasn't part of the report that was sent. However... If you're on the page where the file is, you can use your browser's "view source" feature and search for the file ID. Samuel |
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Re: How do I fill the gap between when my migration covers and when my groups.io group was ready to use.
#migration
On 14 Nov 2019 14:10, Adam Carlson wrote:
How can I copy over those last few days worth of posts? I've downloaded all my group data from Yahoo. So I have them locally.Option 1: Create a temporary e-mail address for yourself that you're not going to use again, then manually forward the remaining the messages to the group, using an e-mail program and using your temporary e-mail address as the FROM address. In Thunderbird, I can right-click a message and select "Edit as a new message", so that the message is not "forwarded", which preserves the quoting style, although the resent message is still "FROM" me. Option 2: Convert the mails to e.g. HTML, DOC or PDF files or DOC files, and upload them to the Files section. How to convert them to those formats depend on the format that they're currently in. Samuel |
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Re: Can I export data via eMail??
#export
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 06:57 AM, Dan Rawson wrote:
Is it possible to export the group data via an eMail request?No, that has to be done via Admin > Settings, Export Group Data.? You might be able to do it via the API, but I haven't gotten into that, /api? This may be included in the app at some point, too. 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: time on calendar and reminder
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 05:55 AM, Rose Marie wrote:
When I entered the details of more than one meeting and marked Time Zone as Eastern. The time on the calendar shows at 6:30 AM although I entered 9:30 AM.The Calendar page has a time zone setting at the lower right.? Maybe that's what you need to change? 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: move messages to subgroup
#yahoo
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 05:38 AM, Gary Ferland wrote:
I found several posts from circa 2017 which say that there is no way to move a message from main to a subgroup or between subgroups.? Is that still the case?Yes, it's still this way.? Allowing things to be moved between main and subgroups doesn't seem to be a high priority.? The most recent mention I found is Deleting the content and doing a new transfer might work.? That could be a lot of work since the most you can do is delete one Topic at a time. 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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move messages to subgroup
#yahoo
I have three subgroups that were created after I requested a Yahoo transfer.? The transfer happened but the content went to the main group.? I would like to bulk move the content to the subgroup intended for questions.?
I found several posts from circa 2017 which say that there is no way to move a message from main to a subgroup or between subgroups.? Is that still the case? Would it work to delete the Yahoo messages in the main group and request a new transfer from Yahoo to the correct subgroup? thanks! Gary |
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Re: Caution: "Content flagged as objectionable" message
On 14 Nov 2019 12:01, Pete Twissell wrote:
The link does not lead to the location of a file, but attempts to start a download titled "1".This rings a very big bell, but I was unable to find the previous threads on this issue (namely legitimate files downloading as "1") in the GMF or beta groups (possibly because searching for '"1"' is just looking for trouble). Sorry, I can't remember if this turned out to be a browser issue. But have you tried clicking the link in other browsers? Samuel |
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Re: Separate Accounts (NOT Groups) on Same Home Page?
On 14 Nov 2019 12:12, Dan Rawson wrote:
I was actually NOT able to get this to work (different sign-ins on different tabs) in my environment (Firefox on Linux).By "this" I assume you mean using an extension in the browser...? As far as I can see, no-one here mentioned a Firefox extension, but I did find one that worked, called MultiAccountContainers: With this extension, if you click one of the sessions in the list, it opens a new tab, but the tab doesn't automatically load Groups.io. YOu have to type in (or select from the browser's address field dropdown options) /groups. But from that point onwards the tab is a separate session with a separate login, and all tabs opened from those tabs remain part of that particular session. I particularly like the fact that the session name is noted in the address field, so that you can see which session the tab is from. You can also save sessions in Firefox manually, but then each session is in a separate window (not just a separate tab). Samuel |
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