On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 08:19 AM, <mcbadger@...> wrote:

It looks like a manual process, but are there any tips??

Our Group has the same concern and those not renewing are purged from GIO. My tips would be to use routine GIO Exports to check names against your DB, to require their real names be used as their display ID in your group (as that is a typical consistant ID field with you own DB records) and to routinely check your group's Activity history to discover changed emails (which aren't always updated or consistant with your organization's email on file).?

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On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 09:35 AM, Eric Johnson wrote:

I need the report to see which invites failed so that I can possibly send another in a day or so depending on the cause of the failure.

Click the "Sent Invitations" button at the top of the Invite page.

In order to do this, I need to know when the report goes >poof<.

They never go >poof< unless you delete them. We have active invitations here in GMF dating from 2014.

Bruce

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 07:41 AM, Eric Johnson wrote:

First, when adding members I have several that have Yahoo records with no name, merely an email address. Do I load the email address and does it require the brackets (<>). Nothing for the name.

Only the email address, no <>, quotes, or anything else.

Second, when I sign in to Groups.io, I have at the top a "Your groups" choice. It has a number in the center of a circle. The number used to be" 6" which was the number of groups to which I belong. I've not changed the number of groups but the number in the circle now says "1"rather than "6". Is this an issue or does the change mean something?

The little number is the total of items that need a attention.? Could be message approvals, member approvals, etc.? You can get a slightly more detailed list at /groups after you sign in.

Finally, when I send invitations, there is a report showing the status/result of the invitations. Is that report only in existence for one day or does it exist just until it is read or . . .?

Go to the Invite page and look through the list.? The Status column will have the status of each Invite (and can be sorted.)? There will also be a record in the Activity log/page for each invitation sent, as well as any accepted.

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First, when adding members I have several that have Yahoo records with no name, merely an email address. Do I load the email address and does it require the brackets (<>). Nothing for the name.

Second, when I sign in to Groups.io, I have at the top a "Your groups" choice. It has a number in the center of a circle. The number used to be" 6" which was the number of groups to which I belong. I've not changed the number of groups but the number in the circle now says "1"rather than "6". Is this an issue or does the change mean something?

Finally, when I send invitations, there is a report showing the status/result of the invitations. Is that report only in existence for one day or does it exist just until it is read or . . .?

Thanks as always.

Eric

hi. well what happens, don't get it in my inbox in outlook 2016, but when i go to the site and use the barrier free option, shows the messages in spam, and so had to either whitelist. and now trying to repair my account in control panel, mail. see if that fixes it. something maybe i did click on mail check or mail collector, which puts legit messages as spam. never had that before. did have a account on mail.com and now another friend set one up for me. thanks.

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IOmails were going into spam in my gmx-mailbox as well. So I whitelisted "@groups.io". This was sufficient.

May be this works for mail.com as well?

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Andrea

Marvin, you are not posting to this group with mail.com so I don’t understand.?

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:06 PM, Sam Kamens wrote:

But now, many of those gmail users are having trouble sending list message to our regular list address ([email protected]). I'm pretty sure this is because gmail stores the +owner address in the automatically saved addresses, but associates the +owner address with the list name. So the user goes to compose a message to [email protected],?and it?looks like it's going there, but it's actually going to [email protected].

Frustrating.

Yes.

The problem is not unique to GMail. Many webmail providers and email clients do this by default. And it's even more frustrating as a Moderator, when every email address you've ever used to approve a message magically lands among your Contacts.

Question for the collective brain - have any of you dealt with this same problem? Is there an easy way to tell the gmail users what to do to fix this?

The answer is here:?? Also appended below.

Whether it is "easy to tell" to people is another story. I'll let you make that call.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Start or stop saving automatically

1. Go to your?.
2. On the left navigation panel, click?People & sharing.
3. On the?Contacts?panel, click?Contact info saved from interactions.
4. Turn?Save contact info when you interact with people?on or off.
5. If you use Gmail, choose if Gmail saves contact info from people you email:
   1. On a computer, go to your?.
   2. Under "Create contacts for auto-complete," choose an option.
   3. At the bottom of the page, click?Save changes.

hi. set up a groups.io account, subscribed, but had to go to and set up my account in outlook 2016 windows 10 1909 64 bit on a laptop.

now, cannot find the setting to make sure and says to go to desktop view. so, my groups welcome messages, was going to spam.

so are they blacklisted or do i have to then white list every e-mail address, so it goes to my in box, at present, have to login, go to the barrier free, as more simpler and works with screen readers like Jaws.

never seen this before, might have maybe clicked on the mail check or mail collector by mistake.

if any one has used mail.com, and maybe encountered this issue, hwo to fix, very annoying, have to go to spam, then select all the messages, then move to inbox, don't have to do this extra steps. any ideas. very weird.

marvin.

Mod's note: spaces made between some concepts.

SamiJo,?

I'm the OP on this thread.? The trhead was created to HELP STOP folks from using the old Yahoo email and focus on GroupsIO.? :)

So, having the YG Description field with bold color text and even a clickable link to get to your GroupsIO page is the way to setup the YG Description page.?

AND the other trick is to have an automated email sent out to the old YG folks to UNSUBSCRIBE from there and JOIN your GIO here. :)?? You can set this up in outlook OR from what I'm understanding in the GIO calendar to send out a notice to the the old YG to post directly to them.?

This way, it's nearly all automatic after it's setup and working. :)

BMaverick

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 07:43 PM, Terry Tegnazian wrote:

Is there a way for moderators to set the number of files visible on a page to more than 50?

Each person can set that in their Account settings under Items Per Page - 20, 50, 100, or infinite scroll.? Be aware that infinite scroll doesn't work on some pages though.

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Hi folks,

We recently moved our group (westorangeshuls) over from Yahoo go groups.io (along many, many others). We didn't do a group transfer, because we wanted to use the opportunity to clean up our group membership list.

I modified the pending subscription message to instruct the new list members to reply to the message with information about themselves, so our moderators could verify and approve as appropriate. This means that most of our users wound up sending a message to [email protected]?when they sent that message.

All OK so far. But now, many of those gmail users are having trouble sending list message to our regular list address ([email protected]). I'm pretty sure this is because gmail stores the +owner address in the automatically saved addresses, but associates the +owner address with the list name. So the user goes to compose a message to [email protected],?and it?looks like it's going there, but it's actually going to [email protected].

Frustrating.

Question for the collective brain - have any of you dealt with this same problem? Is there an easy way to tell the gmail users what to do to fix this? Unfortunately many of our users are not super tech savvy, so they have trouble figuring it out for themselves.

Thanks for any thoughts or ideas!

Sam Kamens

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 07:07 PM, Ingrid wrote:

It's about the feature you had implemented which is writing "From" and "Date"
in the beginning of the message.
In about 40% to 35% of messages this functions. In about 60% to 65%, there is
neither a "From" nor a "Date".

it skipped more than 2000 messages!

I fixed these two bugs. Please download the program again.

(Luckily I had made a subgroup for testing the program!)

Already imported messages are skipped by groups.io if you try to import them again into the same group or subgroup. Perhaps you'll have to delete that test subgroup and create it again.

Also, delete the imported.txt file.

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 07:21 PM, Moderator SamiJo wrote:

Apparently the transfer allowed for mail to be forwarded from yahoo to groups io for a period of time.

Nope.? When the information was downloaded from the YG, that's all that was uploaded to GIO.? If any messages after that showed up, someone was sending them to GIO.

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I'm sure there was no forwarding of mail from Yahoo to Groups.io. However, if people were still posting to the Yahoo list they would have gotten messages from there as well as from the new Groups.io list. Transferring to Groups.io didn't removed them from the Yahoo list, so if it is still active they can still send and receive messages from the Yahoo list. That could cause some confusion.

Jonathan

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 07:08 PM, Christos G. Psarras wrote:

I mean, to me at least, the way it works (differently depending on default group setting), can be confusing/misleading.

Yes, the wording was hashed and rehashed on the beta group a few years ago.? I believe it was decided that the information presented there and in the group settings was clear enough.? You'd need to bring this up on that group in order for anyone from management to see it.

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 05:26 PM, Lisa Mechanick wrote:

Lisas list made the group on io

Have 1300 members did not have to pay when I did it

Thought I sent an invitation

Unless you can get the information from the YG, as Frances has shown, it's gone.? You didn't pay for your group, so any invitation was ignored.? There was a very detailed step-by-step procedure that you obviously didn't follow. All of the YG transfers by GIO ended on Dec 5.

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Duane, I have absolutely no idea how any of that works. Apparently the transfer allowed for mail to be forwarded from yahoo to groups io for a period of time. Hopefully that was since been closed down. I’m more on the operational end; we have a volunteer helping with the tech stuff.