Re: Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io?
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Why not turn off posting in the old group? That might get their attention, and it will serve your purpose of not wanting posts in the old group. Donald On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 09:39:14 -0800, "Adam Carlson" <adam_carlson@...> wrote: So the question stands. Other than manually replying to all my remaining Yahoo posters telling them to move to groups.io? Basically, does yahoo groups have some sort of auto-respond capability. ---------------------------------------------------- Join the Icom group, a general Icom (amateur radio) discussion group on Groups.io: /g/ICOM (recently launched, growing slowly) **also, a new self-help group dedicated to your cat's health: /g/CatVet (just launched)
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Re: Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io?
#yahoo
There is a round-about way. Modify your "Group Description", "Welcome Message",
and "Footer message" to alert those logging in, joining or reading a posted message. It doesn't send an e-mail but it is obvious. We did this and it seemed to work:
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BIBLE_PROPHECY-L has been moved from Yahoo groups to GROUPS.IO as BibleProphecy due to all of the issues we experienced on Yahoo Groups for the past six months.
Please visit / to sign up and search for our group BibleProphecy
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"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book
of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." God
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Bowman
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2019 11:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io? #yahoo
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:41 PM, Adam Carlson wrote:
So the question stands. Other than manually replying to all my remaining Yahoo posters telling them to move to
? Basically, does yahoo groups?have some sort of auto-respond capability.
Adam -- The answer is no.
Regards,
Bruce
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I sent this to the support@ 5 days ago but didn't hear?back. Maybe someone knows the answer to these questions?
1. Can i track (open / read rates)?
2. Can I moderate messages (for 50 groups easily)
3. I want to integrate the sign-up process on my WordPress site, is that easy to do?
5. Can I change the?@domain to my own URL name?
Thank you all in advance! 
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Re: premium -- not premium
After long delays in Transfer joining up, the group transfers wrere
SPEEDY !!... taking about an hour from go-ahead to
completion.
Impressive! Thanks.
-John
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On 11/17/2019 9:51 AM, J Forster via
Groups.Io wrote:
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I had to send two invites to get Transfer to join some Yahoo
groups to become subgroups. . The first was over a week ago, the
second yesterday.
Transfer joined overnight.
-John
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On 11/17/2019 12:30 AM, Bruce Bowman
wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 09:20 PM, Zelda Collett-Paule wrote:
I can¡¯t click on ¡°View Existing Transfer Status¡±. I
paid for premium, which the payment is on my VISA statement.?
I guess I¡¯ll send another invite.
Zelda -- If you go to the page at?/yahootransfer,
and you don't have ANY links showing under the Existing Transfer
Status, then you never initiated the transfer.?
See?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/23597?and
begin again at Step 2.1. Repeatedly inviting the transfer agent
(Step 3) will not accomplish anything until you've completed
Step 2.
Regards,
Bruce
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Re: Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io?
#yahoo
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:41 PM, Adam Carlson wrote:
So the question stands. Other than manually replying to all my remaining Yahoo posters telling them to move to ? Basically, does yahoo groups?have some sort of auto-respond capability.
Adam -- The answer is no. Regards, Bruce
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Re: Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io?
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I did send an email to the full list saying when it was closed and telling everyone to move to . I also sent messages counting down the days to when it looked like the migration would be complete based on the transfer "how many ahead of you" tally. But some of my yahoo group users are just posting announcements and they don't actually read the list, or as someone else mentioned, some don't pay attention until they're posting something they're interested in seeing a response to.
So the question stands. Other than manually replying to all my remaining Yahoo posters telling them to move to ? Basically, does yahoo groups?have some sort of auto-respond capability.
Cheers, Adam
I kept my groups updated throughout the transfer process , then notified them when we were close to transfer thar t it would happen that day. Then I sent a notice saying the group has moved, etc.? One person left from one group.? I sent a notice via Yahoo groups entitled Final Notice informing them this would be the last oist from the Yahoo group. I also reminded them of the reason for tge move, to preserve our archives.? And stated that all future group activity and participation will be at the new groups location and I included a link.
Also, I stated that since all participation will be at our new locationlocation, anyone who leaves the newgroup will also be removed from the old Yahoo group.
Actually, unless you plan to keep the Yahoo group past Dec .14, you could remove all the members.? Especially those that are still trying to post to the Yahoo group
Actually unless you are planning tnyone who leaves the new group will also be removed from the Yahoo group.
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Re: Can we move selected archived messages from the main group to a subgroup?
That would be actually good for me as well. We have a sub group or 2 and some of the topics stray to that sub group so it would be handy to move said messages from group a to subgroup a.1
Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP.
On 17 Nov 2019, at 5:40, Susan B wrote:
I too want that feature. It was available as far back as CompuServe so it can¡¯t be that big a deal, on my opinion. We mods used to constantly move individual messages to the right section. ??
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 06:08 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:
1. Is there a way to move (or copy) all archive messages from, say, before 2008 to the Foo subgroup in one quick action?
There's not a tool on the site to do that.? There have been requests and discussions on the beta group to allow moving messages within a group/subgroup setting.? It was in the context of someone posting to the wrong one, but should apply to this situation as well.? I think that if it's implemented, it will be one message or topic at a time, at least initially. Duane -- Help: /static/helpGMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wikiSearch button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions
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Open / Read Rates (Analytics of Mailed Messages)
Hi - does anyone know if we can access analytics (read/open rates) to all messages being shared?
I'm curious to know how many of my members actually open the emails or forward them, etc.
Thanks!
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Re: Our old Yahoogroups posts are not grouped by topic
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:08 PM, Samuel Murray wrote:
PS. By the way, I've been trying to find a free or cheap e-mail client (for Windows) that can group mails by subject line (and list the groups according to most recent post) but was unable to find any, to date. Got any recommendations? It would really help when reading e.g. GMF mails.
Well, you probably don't want to hear this,but Yahoo! webmail does exactly that. If you "hover" the mouse pointer over the end of any displayed subject, an image of a magnifying glass appears. Clicking it opens a new tab with all messages with similar subject displayed newest first. (It's smart enough to include those with "Re:" and "Fwd:" prefixes and even multiple instances.) I mostly don't use this function but since the huge infusion of [GMF] emails, it's been invaluable. I use this helpful sequence:
- Click on the subject magnifier of any message with the desired message. (Not the other magnifier which finds all messages from the same sender)
- Scroll to the bottom (earliest) message
- Click to open it and read the message in a new tab.
- Click the upward-pointing triangle at top right to open and read the next message.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the upward-pointing triangle is grayed out (top, most-recent? message)
- Close this tab to return to the list of the selected subject messages.
- At the top left, click the Selection square which checkmarks all the selected subject messages.
- Click Delete or press the Delete key.
- Close the tab to return to the Inbox.
- Repeat until the upward
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Re: How can I add an image to show in the groups list?
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Re: How can I add an image to show in the groups list?
On 17 Nov 2019 17:55, Don Grass wrote: To bad it only shows up on smart phones. Too bad *what* only shows up on smart phones, Don? If you mean the logo, where else would you have liked the logo to show up? Samuel
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Re: Our old Yahoogroups posts are not grouped by topic
On 17 Nov 2019 16:54, Bruce Bowman wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:41 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:
Is there a way to get Groups.io to reorganise these old posts into
groups based on the subject line, so that they are treated as "topics"? No, and I really don't think you want it to.
Consider a message with the subject line of "Help" (a not-uncommon occurrence in a group like GMF). Well, it's either group messages together even if their authors were lazy, or don't group messages together at all, meaning that current users have to spend a lot more time "moving" through the messages. I understand the risk: authors who were lazy, will get what they deserve. Karma and all that. Alternatively, I guess we'll just have to make the archived downloadable. Samuel PS. By the way, I've been trying to find a free or cheap e-mail client (for Windows) that can group mails by subject line (and list the groups according to most recent post) but was unable to find any, to date. Got any recommendations? It would really help when reading e.g. GMF mails.
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Re: How can I add an image to show in the groups list?
To bad it only shows up on smart phones.
Don
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Resizing Images (was: How much time does it take to manage a group?)
Thank you for your reply Duane.
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My Nikon CoolPix digital camera takes huge photos.
I used to save them in a directory, and it didn't take long to reach an astronomical size.
Now I only save resized images to disc.
Compare: 4608x3456+0+0 8-bit sRGB 3.86798MiB
to: 849x561+0+0 8-bit sRGB 656352B
3.8MB to 0.6MB
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So I am now working with resized images 99% of the time.
I simply open the original image in a browser which automatically resizes it to fit in the window.
I can use Ctrl-plus or Ctrl-minus to get the size I want.
Then I use a screenshot program to select the area I want to grab, and make a new image.
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It doesn't take much time at all, and I am managing my disc space much better.
Plus, I find that I rarely look back. That is, I hardly ever look at those saved images again.
And if I do find myself looking through back-up discs for images, if I find it, I resize it as described above.
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I guess that is the main thing. I used to think that I needed to save 'everything.'
It just does NOT seem that important to me anymore.
I am pretty sure it has something to do with time? ;-D
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One other thing that I have discovered is that there is just so much information that can be discovered in an image. It seems that the closer I look at an image, the less I see. Go figure.
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Ken, KM4NFQ "Not Fully Qualified"
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 11:24 AM Duane < txpigeon@...> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:18 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:
On 17 Nov 2019 15:35, Ken KM4NFQ wrote:
So one of the the things I have done is to limit the size of images to 480x480 (something like that?).
Personally, I would find that annoying. But it depends on the group. I can't really see any need for resizing any images automatically.
On a basic group, storage is at a premium.? It doesn't take many of those 5-10MB photos to use a lot of space, compared to 50-100KB each.? Keep in mind that the size is how they're stored, not necessarily how they're displayed.? For example, I have a photo on one of my groups that was resized to 312x312 taking about 48KB of storage.? If I go to the Photos section and open it, it appears at 640x480 and 140KB on my monitor.? If I download it, it's at 312x234, 48KB.? It does result in a little fuzziness on some photos online, but nothing our group can't live with.? Ken's choice of 488x488 would reduce the fuzz some and still save a lot of space.
Duane
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Re: How much time does it take to manage a group?
Thank you for your reply Duane.
I cannot, for the life of me, imagine an 'emergency' situation where I would need to contact everyone subscribed to the Group? This is just one of those things that I do not understand. It is an Internet email group. What could possibly go wrong? I cannot imagine that my Group will have anything that people cannot live without. If goes away, it goes away.
No electrons will be harmed. No lives will be lost. ;-D
Nevertheless, I have noted the 'No Email' and 'Special Notices Only' options. Thank you.
A friend of mine just subscribed to my Group so I could see what happens and how much time it would take to do whatever I need to do. It is really effortless.
In this case I logged in to the Group dashboard and approved the new member manually. However, the email I received said I only needed to reply to the email to do the same thing. So really, that shouldn't take much time at all.
The options I have under Members > Pending Approval > Actions are: Approve Reject Claim Send Message Ban
The only one I am not sure about is 'Claim'. But I am pretty sure it is explained in the Wiki or somewhere.
Anyway, approving new members shouldn't take much time at all! Great!
Regards,
Ken, KM4NFQ "Not Fully Qualified"
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 11:09 AM Duane < txpigeon@...> wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:34 AM, Ken KM4NFQ wrote:
The usual suggestion for them is to choose no email as an option, and to read the topics on the site.
So it seems to me that having the no email option is a good one.
No Email and Special Notices Only are almost the same if the Moderator uses special notices as truly special.? The difference is that in a real "emergency", a post by a moderator/owner can be sent to everyone via email by sending it as a special notice.? With No Email enabled, those that have it set wouldn't see the post until they went online.? In some cases, that might be too late.? I've disabled No Email on my groups and haven't sent a special notice in almost 5 years on GIO.
Duane
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Re: How much time does it take to manage a group?
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:18 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:
On 17 Nov 2019 15:35, Ken KM4NFQ wrote:
So one of the the things I have done is to limit the size of images to 480x480 (something like that?).
Personally, I would find that annoying. But it depends on the group. I can't really see any need for resizing any images automatically.
On a basic group, storage is at a premium.? It doesn't take many of those 5-10MB photos to use a lot of space, compared to 50-100KB each.? Keep in mind that the size is how they're stored, not necessarily how they're displayed.? For example, I have a photo on one of my groups that was resized to 312x312 taking about 48KB of storage.? If I go to the Photos section and open it, it appears at 640x480 and 140KB on my monitor.? If I download it, it's at 312x234, 48KB.? It does result in a little fuzziness on some photos online, but nothing our group can't live with.? Ken's choice of 488x488 would reduce the fuzz some and still save a lot of space. Duane -- Help: /static/helpGMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wikiSearch button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions
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Re: Multiple e-mail problem
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 11:15 AM, Ginger Iorizzo wrote:
Since I deleted the account with the "wrong" address will my messages now go to the hotmail address, or is there something else I need to do???I can't see the membership list on that group to know if I am subscribed under two different e-mail addresses.??
If you can't see Admin, Members, you are not logged in as Owner. Perhaps as a moderator with limited permissions? But you still have to find your owner email address. (Assuming you are the owner). Frances ? -- FAQ on Moving from YahooGroupsGMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers
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Re: Multiple e-mail problem
Thanks, Shal.? I was able to delete the account under the "wrong" e-mail.? My group still shows up under my Hotmail account, so hopefully, I will now get messages delivered there.
Since I deleted the account with the "wrong" address will my messages now go to the hotmail address, or is there something else I need to do???I
can't see the membership list on that group to know if I am subscribed under two different e-mail addresses.??
Sorry for all the confusion and thanks?again for your help.
Ginger
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Ginger,
?> If I have a Groups.io account under the "wrong" e-mail, how do I find
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Simple, log in to it. You may need to log out of whatever account you're
currently logged into. Or open a second browser to log in with. You
likely don't have a password set for that "wrong" account, so just use
the link for forgotten password, or the button for emailing a login link.
?> When I go to the group with the "wrong" e-mail delivery, it says that
?> my account is my hotmail address.
That only means that you have two subscriptions to that group - one
under your hotmail address and one under your "wrong" address.
Just remember that from Groups.io's point of view every subscribed email
address is its own account, possibly owned by a different person.
Shal
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Re: How much time does it take to manage a group?
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:34 AM, Ken KM4NFQ wrote:
The usual suggestion for them is to choose no email as an option, and to read the topics on the site.
So it seems to me that having the no email option is a good one.
No Email and Special Notices Only are almost the same if the Moderator uses special notices as truly special.? The difference is that in a real "emergency", a post by a moderator/owner can be sent to everyone via email by sending it as a special notice.? With No Email enabled, those that have it set wouldn't see the post until they went online.? In some cases, that might be too late.? I've disabled No Email on my groups and haven't sent a special notice in almost 5 years on GIO. Duane
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:49 AM, Chris Granner wrote:
A fellow member asked if I could remove some goofy hashtags. In digging into this, I found a couple references to "edit the hashtag out of the subject line."?
I am the creator of one such tag, and I can't even edit my own past subject line seemingly -- let alone the others' posts who responded on the thread.
If it is just one subject line you wish to change, go to your group homepage. Find the message. Use the menu More (hamburger menu). Choose Edit Topic. Frances ? -- FAQ on Moving from YahooGroupsGMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers
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