Terry,

I want to import an existing Excel file into the database of my group.
Any suggestions? Not seeing it working when I tried the import table
with a csv file.

As I recall the secret handshake is to create the table with column names that exactly match the text of (and perhaps the order of) the names in the header row of the csv file. As if that was obvious.

Shal


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I want to import an existing Excel file into the database of my group. Any suggestions? Not seeing it working when I tried the import table with a csv file.
Thanks

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Member-Notices

Frances

stopthethyroidmadness,

And yes, with my new io group, I do have a response sent to them as a
pending member. But do I have to give my email to all pending
members?? At least Yahoo has an "Owner email" to use that protects the
privacy of my email.

Groups.io does as well - it is listed on your group's home page with the other group email addresses.

There are two differences versus Yahoo Groups, one trivial the other less so.

The trivial difference is that it is spelled groupname+owner rather than groupname-owner.

The less trivial difference is that you have (each mod and owner has) a setting in your Subscription page that controls whether +owner messages are forwarded to you. You can choose "All Emails" (which is the same as Y!Groups function), "Subscribers Only" or "None".

I generally recommend that at least one owner or mod in each group accept +owner messages from "All Emails" - just so that pending members and others trying to join the group can reach someone.

Shal


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I am having a challenge figuring this out. Yes, with my Yahoo group, they are required to prove why they are qualified to join the group...and they use a field to do so.?

And yes, with my new io group, I do have a response sent to them as a pending member. But do I have to give my email to all pending members?? At least Yahoo has an "Owner email" to use that protects the privacy of my email.?

Anybody know the solution to this??

?

Where do I go that will require a new member request to include a message from them as to why they are qualified to join???

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 12:37 PM, KA5DWI wrote:

Be patient.
I have been waiting for over a month.
When I get time, I will do it manually.
Regards
Art

Art -- It should not take a month. Have you visited the group transfer page lately? What does it say at the top?

Bruce
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Milt,

BigTent responded saying that they will not take action on requests
from anyone other than the current moderator of a group, so we will
funnel our request through the current moderator. I'll do a post here
on any response we receive.

I'm confused.

From yesterday's post I thought you already had a response - and a very positive one at that!
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/11476

I had meant to reply to that message but hadn't gotten to it yet. So I guess now's the time.

The dump was in .tgz format, and our tech guru, Bob Leder,
successfully created a simple python program to convert the entries
from that dump into email messages and mail them individually to our
groups.io group. They're showing up just perfectly on the new group.

Presumably they're showing as From Bob, and with the date he ran the program. Did he include the original poster's name and the original date in his (program's) messages?

In any case though, bravo!

It seems to me that something of the sort could be done with messages caught in any proprietary format - such as a PG Offline export of a Yahoo Group, or an mbox export from a Mailman list, or ...

Shal




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Donald,

To save Shal the trouble, these are the changes Mark has made to the
groups.io system.

That would be:

Feel free to discuss any of these items.

I normally like to start off with some commentary on at least one of the items. Though some weeks none of them particularly excite me.

CHANGE: Tweaked the wording of 'Default Post Policy' and 'Default
group policy' to be more clear.

Now the Actions menu and the Posting Privileges option in the member's page both say "Use Group Moderation Setting".

You're welcome.
(I'd suggested the change in a request to support)

CHANGE: Disable Action button on Members page if no members are
selected.

You're welcome.



Shal
Channeling Maui today.
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Be patient.
I have been waiting for over a month.
When I get time, I will do it manually.
Regards
Art

To save Shal the trouble, these are the changes Mark has made to the
groups.io system. Feel free to discuss any of these items.

Donald
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Changes to the site this week:

INTERNAL: Tested database backups.

INTERNAL: Changed the internals of the database APIs to better deal
with the new connection pooling system.

CHANGE: Tweaked the wording of 'Default Post Policy' and 'Default
group policy' to be more clear.

BUGFIX: Couldn't delete a topic that had previously had a hashtag that
had been deleted.

BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition in the test topics page when deleting
topics.

CHANGE: In the Files section, display the Updated field instead of the
Created field for Uploaded date.

CHANGE: Disable Action button on Members page if no members are
selected.

CHANGE: Tweaked URL text in confirmation email to match the URL
itself.

BigTent responded saying that they will not take action on requests from anyone other than the current moderator of a group, so we will funnel our request through the current moderator.? I'll do a post here on any response we receive.

Milt Baker

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Jim,

... I haven't received a response and don't know what method of
notification I will receive, if any.

The In Process page for your transfer should tell you the status of your invitation. If it says it has been received then you're good. You'll be emailed (at the address that initiated the transfer) further instructions once the transfer agent accepts the invitation.

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Our Yahoo group had an underscore, and the GIO group was the same name without the underscore.? It transferred just fine, once GIO got around to responding to the Yahoo invite we sent.

Try clearing your browser's cache or doing it on a different machine in case some old rubbish in there is gumming it up.

Mark

Patti . . .

On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 00:02:29 +0000 (UTC), "Patti via Groups.Io"
<patti20905@...> wrote:

I am a bit worried, since the Yahoo group name contains an underscore as part of the name, and when I created the new group it did not like that, so I had to take it out in order to create the new group. Could this be the show stopper? does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to successfully transfer the group?

We transferred two groups from Yahoo into one IO group and all three
group names were different, so transferring to a group with a
different name should not matter.

Donald


Join the Icom group, a general Icom discussion group on Groups.io:
/g/ICOM (just launched)

Received from Marv Waschke at 8/31/2018 05:07 PM UTC:

A general word on attachment policy. Why would anyone want to ban attachments?

Attachments are dangerous because they are a favorite tool of criminal hackers for infecting computer systems.

In addition to criminals deliberately trying to infect us, we have the innocent, unsuspecting (and ignorant) subscribers who become infected via that cute "fill in the blank" forwarded by "Aunt Sally"... who runs every attachment and clicks every link that anyone sends her.

As with some other things in life, it's not just what's in front of us... it's ALL the things received and possibly clicked on by the person who sent the ONE thing that's in front of us.

Jim H

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 01:56 PM, Jim Wilhite wrote:

I have followed the steps Duane, I haven't received a response and don't know what method of notification I will receive, if any.?

As Duane said, follow the instructions in this message /g/GroupManagersForum/message/10386

When the transfer agent has accepted the invitation and joined your Yahoo group, you will receive an email to that effect. If you don't know how to send a Yahoo invitation, that information can be found at??

Regards,
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