Re: Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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Owners were warned. But I do know some owners just never alerted their group. I think all owners should have stayed on top of it reporting it to their groups . I know of one that she didn't alert anything about it Some quiet group owners may not have known. And in many groups, a lot of people are no mail or digest; if they haven't checked the site recently, the owner had no way of letting them know. No one can expect an owner, who after all is unpaid, to send out 1,000 emails just in case someone didn't know Yahoo was bailing. Samdu
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Re: My Yahoo Group already exists on groups.io
Group Settings
- All subscribers can post to the group.
- Posts to this group do not require approval from the moderators.
- Posts from new users require approval from the moderators.
- Messages are set to reply to group.
- Subscriptions to this group do not require approval from the moderators.
- Archives are visible to anyone.
- Wiki is visible to subscribers only.
- Members can edit their messages.
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Re: My Yahoo Group already exists on groups.io
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 08:03 PM, Frances wrote:
I emailed that address and have not heard back.? Is it possible somebody created it and abandoned it?
Well, check out the settings for the group on the group homepage.
Is it moderated or not? "Posts to this group do not require approval from the moderators." - unmoderated.
Is the message archive accessible to you? "Archives are visible to anyone." - public
Even if it is a restricted group, you can see the date (or if today) the last post - on left under Group Information.
Why not join the group? You can always unsubscribe. At least you will find out if there are many of your old group there. Frances? -- Moving to Groups.io (without easy transfer)
GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers
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Quoting is sometimes essential, especially if some of your readers might be getting 50-100 emails a day.
If I wish to respond to a post saying they don't like a specific sentence in a book, then:
"I agree with X" is useless.
"When X says "that [book title] is not factual, I agree." is just slightly more useful.
"X said: [Book title] is not factual in that name are all wrong," followed by my "I agree" tells the reader what the discussions was about.
So what's quoted is whatever will let someone follow a conversation, without, of course, quoting all previous emails. A matter of judgement, as so many things are.
Sandy
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Re: My Yahoo Group already exists on groups.io
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:57 PM, Harry wrote:
I emailed that address and have not heard back.? Is it possible somebody created it and abandoned it?
Well, check out the settings for the group on the group homepage. Is it moderated or not? "Posts to this group do not require approval from the moderators." - unmoderated. Is the message archive accessible to you? "Archives are visible to anyone." - public Even if it is a restricted group, you can see the date (or if today) the last post - on left under Group Information. Frances -- Moving to Groups.io (without easy transfer)
GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:24 PM, ro-esp wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 01:41 PM, Art Kocsis wrote:
not even partially quoting the original post frequently renders the
response worthless for all but the OP
Only if you don't take the time to go online to read the topic.
No, even if you do read the subjectline. No quote means you don't know what part of whose message the reply is to
groetjes, Ronaldo
Well, there is one workaround - if you are online, click to open the message. Then change from "message" to "topic" at the top of the page.? That topic will have a vertical blue line on the left side and you can then read the full context. (At least it does in Safari on my MacBook.) But quoting is better! Works in email. Frances ? -- Moving to Groups.io (without easy transfer)
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Re: My Yahoo Group already exists on groups.io
I emailed that address and have not heard back.? Is it possible somebody created it and abandoned it?
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Re: My Yahoo Group already exists on groups.io
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Re: Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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Owners were warned. But I do know some owners just never alerted their group. I think all owners should have stayed on top of it reporting it to their groups . I know of one that she didn't alert anything about it?
On Monday, December 16, 2019, 04:05:22 PM CST, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:
It appears that files and photos and such are now gone from Yahoo Groups. Bruce -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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My Yahoo Group already exists on groups.io
How can I find out who the owner is?
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 08:46 PM, Duane wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 01:41 PM, Art Kocsis wrote:
not even partially quoting the original post frequently renders the
response worthless for all but the OP
Only if you don't take the time to go online to read the topic. No, even if you do read the subjectline. No quote means you don't know what part of whose message the reply is to groetjes, Ronaldo
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Re: Using an external database for membership
Thought that was going to be the case, thanks for your help Daune.
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Re: Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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When our members break our rules with their postings and it's a something that I can't fix without rejecting it with reply and telling them to fix it I just go ahead and do that because it easiest that way. But if I have to do it via email, I don't see a way to edit their posting and then approve it. At least for the last email that I received it just looks like I can approve it or reject it. Is that true I no longer can edit it and I can no longer reject with reply telling them what's wrong? or does that reject option in the email give me a choice to just reject or reject and reply once I try it?
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From: Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...>
Date: 12/16/19 5:42 PM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: Re: [GMF] Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 05:39 PM, Cindy in DE wrote:
Now when I go look into the approval queue to see if there is anything in there I get a message that says
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"The item you are looking for is not available".
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Does that mean that we can no longer have messages that we approve? that they all have to automatically go through? Before I think it used to just say there was nothing to be approved.
Cindy -- This problem has been reported in the Yahoo version of GMF, too. I suspect that going forward, you will have to moderate all posts by email...there is no such web function in Y!G anymore. Bruce
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Re: Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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Bruce,
So I was right on my hunch.? That the change over was today rather than the weekend as most businesses run M-F 9-5.
BMaverick
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Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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It looks like all the Home Page pictures have disappeared also, to be replaced by a vapid Yahoo generic picture or nothing.
-John
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Re: Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 05:39 PM, Cindy in DE wrote:
Now when I go look into the approval queue to see if there is anything in there I get a message that says
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"The item you are looking for is not available".
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Does that mean that we can no longer have messages that we approve? that they all have to automatically go through? Before I think it used to just say there was nothing to be approved.
Cindy -- This problem has been reported in the Yahoo version of GMF, too. I suspect that going forward, you will have to moderate all posts by email...there is no such web function in Y!G anymore. Bruce
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Re: Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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Hi Bruce,
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We moderate all of our messages from our members.? Approving them the past couple of days has been a nightmare. I would have problems getting to the approvals for messages. Sometimes taking me up to six different tries over an hour time frame to get to the approvals. And then I would approved them they would disappear from the queue as if they were approved and maybe half an hour later they would pop up back in the queue to be approved again. And so it would be hit-or-miss as to whether they were actually approved. Most of times taking four or five tries at going through this process before they actually got approved and went through. And of course they had already stopped showing up under conversations. So during this process of waiting whether or not they were really approved I couldn't tell until they just stopped coming up into the queue again.
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Now when I go look into the approval queue to see if there is anything in there I get a message that says
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"The item you are looking for is not available".
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Does that mean that we can no longer have messages that we approve? that they all have to automatically go through? Before I think it used to just say there was nothing to be approved.
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I checked our moderation settings and it still says under messages that they are moderated. But it also says photos are unmoderated and photos don't exist anymore.
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So what should be happening with our messages when we want them to be moderated?
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Interesting our group homepage picture changed too.
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From: Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...>
Date: 12/16/19 5:05 PM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: [GMF] Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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It appears that files and photos and such are now gone from Yahoo Groups.
Bruce
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Re: Duplicate Message Posts
That has happened to me in one of my groups. I suspect what causes it is that another member is using my post to respond to the group, and is inadvertently hitting Reply all and Sender. It usually ceases when the specific subject that is under discussion closes out.
Cacky
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Re: Yahoo Groups shutdown commences
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 05:05 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
It appears that files and photos and such are now gone from Yahoo Groups.
The Chrome browser apps no longer seem to work. They run, but don't download anything. Not sure where this leaves PGO...but I suspect we're now at the mercy of the Privacy Dashboard exports. Bruce
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