Is there any way to limit the number of hashtags used in a post...?
Is there any way to require that all posts have a subject...?
Some members list as many hashtags as possible thinking they'll show up in every search. Or they're too lazy to think about it. We can require that members use a hashtag, but is there any way to cap the number they use?
We also seeing frequent use of hashtags without any subject. Is is possible to require a subject?
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Re: Strange "Delivery Failure¡± email notices
I sent a message to one of my groups and strangely received 2 "Delivery Failure¡± email notices Perhaps these notices were from mail2world.com, not comcast. Those messages were auto-forwarded to mail2world.com, some members of the .io group have set up forwarding. Probably you can see these members' email addresses in the header or footer included in the Delivery Failure notices. Unsub or ban them.
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Hi I am new to Groups.io and have just had my Yahoo group transferred.? My question is will there be a 'Links' page similar to that in Yahoo added to group options any time soon?
We are a Charity Knitting/craft group and have a lot of Links to websites for patterns etc.
We also use the Databases to track our donations each month e.g. who is supporting a collection, when they send their donation etc.
Having Links mixed in with our Interactive Databases is a total mess and going to cause a lot of our elderly not so computer savvie members a lot of anguish.
If this option will not be available does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can put our current Links to get them out of the Database page?? TIA
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Re: prevent people from joining subgroups?
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 11:12 AM Shal Farley < shals2nd@...> wrote: Jan,
1.? How do you moderate one person all there posts?? Is that override moderates?
Yes. The "Override" options for a member's Posting Privileges override the group setting for just that one member.
2.? I ha e a member of sub group that cannot add files.? How do I allow a non moderate to add files to subgroup
In the Settings page for the subgroup (each subgroup has its own), in the Features section at the bottom, you need to set the Permissions option for Files to Subscribers can view and upload. Don't forget the Update Group button at the bottom of the page before you leave the page.
Shal
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Shai thank you I will try it before I roll it out to the distribution list?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote: Ellen,
1. Can you email to individuals/several people using ?
You, a moderator of the group, can checkmark members in the Members list and use the Send Message item in the Actions menu to send to just those members. You can use the Member Notices feature in the Settings page of your group to create and maintain a set of stock messages to select from when you send.
You, a member of the group, can click the Email button on an individual member's Directory entry, if the Directory is available to the group members (that's a group option) and if the member in question has made their profile available in the directory (that's a subscription option). In this case you won't see the other member's email address unless they reply to you, but yours will be in the From field of the message you send to them.
And, as Frances mentioned you, a member, can make a Private reply to a member's post. Same rule as above, you don't see their address unless they reply to you, but your address is in the From field of the message you send. Same thing if the group's Reply To is set to Sender instead of to Group.
And of course, you can use your email service to send messages to anyone whose address you have. If you subscribe to individual messages you'll receive other member's addresses in the From field of messages they post to the group
2. If you receive an email in your personal email and you want to email to the distribution list?are you able to do so.?If you can how will this be done?
If you mean an email that didn't come from the group, you'd have to use your email interface to forward that message to the group's posting address. How you do that depends on your email interface.
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Re: How to prevent members from deleting messages
Thanks. Yes, I saw the Disable Editing.?
Ro
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Re: How to prevent members from deleting messages
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:32 PM, Dawson, Rosemary wrote:
I don't see the setting to prevent members from deleting messages from the web (archives). Is that possible?
It's my understanding that there why subscribers must be permitted to delete their own messages. Regards, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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Re: How to prevent members from deleting messages
Ro,
I don't see the setting to prevent members from deleting messages from the web (archives). Is that possible?
A member, unlike a moderator, can only delete their own messages. And no, there is no setting for you to prevent that. You can prevent them from editing their own messages with the Disable Editing Posts checkbox, in the Message Policies section of your group's Settings page.
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How to prevent members from deleting messages
I don't see the setting to prevent members from deleting messages from the web (archives). Is that possible?
Thanks,
Ro
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Ellen,
1. Can you email to individuals/several people using ?
You, a moderator of the group, can checkmark members in the Members list and use the Send Message item in the Actions menu to send to just those members. You can use the Member Notices feature in the Settings page of your group to create and maintain a set of stock messages to select from when you send.
You, a member of the group, can click the Email button on an individual member's Directory entry, if the Directory is available to the group members (that's a group option) and if the member in question has made their profile available in the directory (that's a subscription option). In this case you won't see the other member's email address unless they reply to you, but yours will be in the From field of the message you send to them.
And, as Frances mentioned you, a member, can make a Private reply to a member's post. Same rule as above, you don't see their address unless they reply to you, but your address is in the From field of the message you send. Same thing if the group's Reply To is set to Sender instead of to Group.
And of course, you can use your email service to send messages to anyone whose address you have. If you subscribe to individual messages you'll receive other member's addresses in the From field of messages they post to the group
2. If you receive an email in your personal email and you want to email to the distribution list?are you able to do so.?If you can how will this be done?
If you mean an email that didn't come from the group, you'd have to use your email interface to forward that message to the group's posting address. How you do that depends on your email interface.
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Strange "Delivery Failure¡± email notices
I sent a message to one of my groups and strangely received 2 "Delivery Failure¡± email notices from my Email Provider <Postmaster@...>
| Message delivery failed to the following address <snipped>@mail2world.com Reason: Mailbox deactivated
These "Delivery Failure" emails included the full message text including footer that was successfully received by other members of my Groups.io group
Both were for < @mail2world.com> email addresses that were members of my YahooGroups, but seem not to have been moved over to Groups.io
I can not find any record of those email addresses or those message failures anywhere on my Groups.io group
The Moderator Activity log does not show any "Support added < @mail2world.com>¡± entries as it does for the addresses that were moved.
What happened?
Where would this be logged?
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Hello Frances, Bruce, etc. ¨C Thanx for that reply.
So while we ARE able to email to individuals using group.io, we cannot however send email to several people at once using group.io?
Or can we?? And if we are able to then we can select 'privete' to do so? Or how???
Just wanting some further clarification on that second (multiple) option.
Paul M.
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Great Frances.. Thank you I will try them out and let you know how it goes.
Thanks for the help.. This is my first go around with Group.io and I am sure the group will have some question so I want to be able to answer a few questions.
Ellen ?
"When things are not adding up in your life - It's time to start subtracting."
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 1:49:51 PM EDT, Frances <frances@...> wrote:
Question 1 -
1. Can you email to individuals/several people using group.io?? If you can how would you do so.not sure what you mean. Reply off list to just a few people? Not sure.
It is easy to reply privately (off list) to just one person.? If you are replying through your email, reply by clicking on reply to sender in the footer.? (I believe that doesn't work if you are set to plain text. Recent discussion about this.) I do it through the home page. I click on reply and type and then click on Private (bottom right corner) instead of the green Reply to Group. Question 2 -?
2. If you receive an email in your personal email and you want to email to the group.io distribution list?are you able to do so.?If you can how will this be done?
That's easy! Just start an email. The only tricky part is that you have to use the email address you are using as a member. Except you can set an email alias that allows you to use another email address instead. Set that up on your group site - go to your name in the top right corner. In Account, scroll down and click to open Advanced Settings for Email Aliases. This is useful if you wanted to email to a group from your work computer. Your group email address is on the homepage of your group.? Frances
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Question 1 -
1. Can you email to individuals/several people using group.io?? If you can how would you do so.not sure what you mean. Reply off list to just a few people? Not sure.
It is easy to reply privately (off list) to just one person.? If you are replying through your email, reply by clicking on reply to sender in the footer.? (I believe that doesn't work if you are set to plain text. Recent discussion about this.) I do it through the home page. I click on reply and type and then click on Private (bottom right corner) instead of the green Reply to Group. Question 2 -?
2. If you receive an email in your personal email and you want to email to the group.io distribution list?are you able to do so.?If you can how will this be done?
That's easy! Just start an email. The only tricky part is that you have to use the email address you are using as a member. Except you can set an email alias that allows you to use another email address instead. Set that up on your group site - go to your name in the top right corner. In Account, scroll down and click to open Advanced Settings for Email Aliases. This is useful if you wanted to email to a group from your work computer. Your group email address is on the homepage of your group.? Frances
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1. Can you email to individuals/several people using group.io?? If you can how would you do so.
2. If you receive an email in your personal email and you want to email to the group.io distribution list?are you able to do so.?If you can how will this be done?
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Ok, so delete the current one and type in the new one and thats it correct?
Joe
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On 9/25/2018 10:24 PM, Toby Kraft wrote:
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Did you type the new password in the text box before clicking the Change Password button?
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Re: Smooth migration of ~18,500 accounts and ~10,700 messages
Oh Duh! That makes perfect sense! And Groups.io would have no idea they were deleted so there is no way to accommodate for that. Thanks for making that clear!
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Re: Smooth migration of ~18,500 accounts and ~10,700 messages
The transition from Yahoo to .io was immediately done with neither issues, nor problems.? Thanks, David
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Re: Smooth migration of ~18,500 accounts and ~10,700 messages
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:03 AM, R. Joe Brandon wrote:
My *only* quibble is that I wish they would insert a ¡°message not successfully transferred¡± in the sequence so that the message tally total was the same. I use the message number as my invoice number so I will have to use a temporary unique is until I get back out of my already used numbers :-)
The agent cannot transfer messages that have previously been deleted on Yahoo. Thus the total number transferred will be somewhat less than the message number assigned to the last message. I hope that made sense. Glad to hear your transfer went well. Bruce ? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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Re: Smooth migration of ~18,500 accounts and ~10,700 messages
R Joe,
Isn't it lovely when some thing works well.
Have a look at Attachments in your YG site , those do not get transfered. These are thing that
were attached to emails, most are icons and parts of signatures but in my case some are
valuable assets.
I haven't done this yet but plan to copy each attachment and paste into the Groups.io group into?
Files. The new file name should include the new message number for correlation with the old
attachment name if possible.
OK,
Tony?
On 25 Sep 2018 at 21:37, R. Joe Brandon wrote about :
Subject : [GMF] Smooth migration of ~18,500 a
The migration process was a little slow to start. And it was not until I sent a second one that
Groups.io acknowledged receipt. The only problems I ran into was after the invitation was
accepted I went to make the transfer account a moderator...and that was not an option! I was
logged in on my owner account and even reloaded the page, still nothing. But Groups.io support
was responding quickly to my questions. I had to leave for a bit and when I came back I tried to
see I could make a random account moderator and the option was there. So I went back to the
Transfer account and now it showed up. I made them a moderator, notified support, clicked
"start transfer". It was late EST but I thought I should compose a messsge to my community
about what was going to happen, hopefully, in the next 72 hours, so they were not surprised by
the message from Groups.io.
I finally finished my email sent it out via YahooGroups and then almost flipped out when I saw a
"Welcome to your new group" message! I clicked through and sure enough while I was writing
they were transferring! The timing was such that my message actually did not make the transfer!
There is some good irony in that I believe.
My community of 18,500+ (Yahoo numbers) establishes on Onelist.com in 1999 transferred over
~11,000 active members and ~6,000 were considered bouncing so my "new" number is
~11,000. I always suspected the Yahoo number wasn't counting properly anyway and this new
number seems solid.
Of the ~10,700 messages on my board it looks like ~10,500 transferred (even though what I
recalled reading in the report was only a few messages did not transfer). But I am satisfied with
that level of success in transfer. My *only* quibble is that I wish they would insert a "message not
successfully transferred" in the sequence so that the message tally total was the same. I use the
message number as my invoice number so I will have to use a temporary unique is until I get
back out of my already used numbers :-) Small inconvenience and not an issue.
The best part? I have received ZERO complaints here in the first 24 hours. And considering
Archaeologists can be a bit cranky about "change" (it comes with the territory lol!) I consider that
absolutely amazing.
This morning, like any other day, a posting came in, I approved it and seconds later saw the
email come in. I checked my observation accounts and the same result, something
YahooGroups was no longer delivering on consistently and which had forced my had to make
the "Jump".
I have been dreading this inevitable move for years and feared my archive of messages would
be lost and of course trying to scrape all the user accounts has been a major challenge for
years. I wish I had made this move sooner.
My hats off to the Groups.io staff who made this work. And a nod to the old staff at Yahoo (&
Onelist & eGroups) who made it work as well as it has for my 19 years.
Best,
R. Joe
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