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Re: My little group's transfer saga #transfer

 

Brick bats and roses.? I think the switch and price jack after we signed up at $110 was over reach.? BUT BUT I must compliment on the site design and smoothness it operates.? With a couple of tweaks it would be perfect.? Writing his own code vs buying a package off the shelf paid off.? Quick access off a Cloud network.

The system is VERY nice.?

No choice but to wait it out.
Re: My little group's transfer saga #transfer

 

Yes, the header on the GIO's Yahoo transfer page says "Due to the pending discontinuation of many parts of Yahoo Groups, we ask that all transfer requests be given the go ahead no later than December 1, 2019."? That's less than two weeks before Yahoo pulls the plug, and current transfers are taking much longer.

I'm no technical expert, and don't know exactly how this works.? Does GIO take a snapshot of the Yahoo group once it accepts the transfer invitation, sort of like the Wayback machine, so that content is preserved?
Re: WIKI: is it possible to create an folder hierachy?

 

My experience with Wiki is, it is a text editor. I would use the Files section to do folders.

Don
Re: Transferring Yahoo group after October 28

 

Larry, do you mean that you no longer have any privileges on your YAHOO Group or on your Groups.io group?

If it is your Groups.io group, are you logging in with your right email address??

Frances
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Re: When you are in Stage 3

 

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The killer is that I started at 801 and went to 904 in 36 hours. That was yesterday morning - but hey I¡¯m finally under 850 now!

I can¡¯t find anyone else admitting they had such a huge pushback and fear it will only get worse as we get closer to the end of the year.

Diane


On Oct 31, 2019, at 8:58 PM, Steve Bass <stevebass@...> wrote:

Yeah, I'm watching my numbers, too. I think every time someone ponies up $200 to be expedited, you and I get bumped.

On Thursday 10/31/2019, [Diane] said:
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I started at 810 on Oct 28.

I am now 842. Not complaining. I?ve dropped 20 places today.

Diane
Suddenly Not Receiving Owner Messages #bug

 

Starting late this afternoon EDT, I stopped receiving owner messages. ?These are important for me use as a cc when I write to members.
Re: Setting so mod can post

Susan Kistler
 

Thank you -- you were very helpful

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:58 PM Frances <frances@...> wrote:

Susan,

Any member of a group can post, unless the group is an announcement group. Owners can always post.
If you can't post, you must be using your wrong email address to try to log into your group or email your group. Your email address is your account ID.

See this on logging into your group without a password -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Logging-In

Or please reply and clarify your problem.

It occurs to me that perhaps you haven't fully set up your Groups.io group - see this on Settings -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances

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Re: My little group's transfer saga #transfer

 

I'm terribly afraid all the groups won't get transferred before yahoo deletes everything on December 14th.? I'm trying to transfer four groups....and only one has actually made it into the queue and it's at something like #853.? At the rate things are moving, there's no way groups.io will be caught up by December 14th.? I'm hoping yahoo will have a little pity and wait a bit longer.

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Re: Transferring Yahoo group after October 28

 

Apparently I no longer have any privileges on my own group. I don't understand since I started the group and am the only owner and have no moderators. I don't see anywhere where I can recover from this, and Yahoo is no help.

Larry
Re: Can't find where to set Archives only visible to Members

 

Thank you MIchael. That's what I ended up doing.
Pat

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 2:50 AM Michael Pavan <michaelpavan@...> wrote:


> On Oct 30, 2019, at 10:11 PM, Pat <patsb123@...> wrote:
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> This has me confused. I want our group to be visible, but I don't want our messages to be visible to anyone but subscribers. I was going to change the settings to group listed in the public, messages private, but I wonder if I'm missing something? We have a restricted membership if that makes any difference.

Admin > Setting > Privacy > "Group listed in directory, private messages"
makes your messages only visible to your subscribers

AND I also recommend:
Admin > Setting > Spam Control > Restricted Membership
to control who your members (subscribers) are
Re: Setting so mod can post

 

Susan,

Any member of a group can post, unless the group is an announcement group. Owners can always post.
If you can't post, you must be using your wrong email address to try to log into your group or email your group. Your email address is your account ID.

See this on logging into your group without a password -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Logging-In

Or please reply and clarify your problem.

It occurs to me that perhaps you haven't fully set up your Groups.io group - see this on Settings -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances

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Setting so mod can post

Susan Kistler
 

I am a mod of a group and owner and I cannot find a setting so I as a mod can post to the group. Is this allowed?
Thank you.?




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Re: When you are in Stage 3

 

Thank you all for the interesting replies. Now I am 847. I cannot transfer myself because I have over 10,000 members and over 400,000 messages. So we are all being patient and not whining. It makes sense about the numbers fluctuating when people pay an additional $200 to have it expedited. I am not at that point, yet. But as it gets closer to Dec 14, I might pay the extra. We will see.

Susan
Re: Transferring Yahoo group after October 28

 

I couldn't remember the name of the pulldown. Yes, it? was "Management". As I recall, it was next to "Membership" pulldown, which is still there.

Larry

P.S.

I just checked another group that I transferred a few days ago, and the "Management" pulldown is there. Maybe I accidentally changed a setting that makes it think I'm not the owner.
On 10/31/2019 7:57 PM, Michael Pavan wrote:

Larry,


On Oct 31, 2019, at 4:18 PM, Larry <n8lp@...> wrote:

I don't even see the Admin pull down where I could initiate an invite.

There is no "Admin" pull down.

Use the "Management" pull down menu (on right, below group picture)
Select "Manage Invitations"
  OR
  Select "Manage Members"
  Click on "+Invite" (below and to the right of the "Management" pull down menu)
Enter email address(es) in box
Click on "Invite" (at bottom of page) 
  - if it doesn't say 'invitation sent successfully' and the number of 'You can invite _ more members today' decreases,
    or it says 'Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content.' 
    Click on "Invite" again.

Moderation - claimed message

 

Hi

A question earlier about the "claimed" tag when moderating messages.

There is a wiki page about moderation that has this:

Claimed messages: ?If you ?open a message to moderate, a Claimed tag with your name will appear.
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You can edit the message and then save it to look again after an edit.?
You complete the approval / moderation of a message by clicking save and approve.
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No one can approve or reject a claimed pending message by email, but working on the web the claim only gives other moderators a warning - it doesn't actually prevent other moderators from "jumping your claim".
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This is why it is unnecessary to have a way to remove the claim - if you become unable to ultimately approve or delete/reject the pending message, another moderator can step in and do it for you. Hopefully that's an infrequent occurrence.

Source:?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Approving---moderating-a-message

Frances
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Re: Time Zone #time zone #time

 

Too late for folks that are already in the group, but there's setting you can use to set the default for them.? On the Settings page, select Default Sub Settings at the top.? On the page that opens, you can set defaults for various member settings, including Time Zone.? Update Group at the bottom of the page.? Any new members will have those to start with, but can change them if they want.

Duane
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Re: Annual Premium for non-profits

 

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 08:18 PM, Jon Angel wrote:
Did I miss something?
No, it's been that way as long as there has been a non-profit discount.

Duane
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Re: How does one unbounce--- bouncing members

 

See this wiki page -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Dealing-with-Bouncing

Frances
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How does one unbounce--- bouncing members

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Help please?
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I have bouncing members -?? how do I unbounce them?
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Any suggestions?
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My little group's transfer saga #transfer

 

  • Saturday October 19:? Alerted members of my group about Yahoo¡¯s plans and discussed options (Google groups. Groups.io, Facebook, plain email, dissolution).? People liked my description of Groups.io especially the ability to preserve ten years¡¯ worth of content.
  • Sunday October 20:? Created group at Groups.io.? Signed up for Premium and paid $110 (which doubled two days later).? Sent invitation for [email protected] to join our Yahoo group.? Heard nothing.
  • Thursday October 24:? Sent a second invitation to [email protected].
  • Friday October 25:? Invitation was finally accepted.? (Whether it was Sunday¡¯s or Thursday¡¯s, I don¡¯t know.)? I swiftly upgraded [email protected] to moderator and gave the go-ahead for transfer.
  • Sunday October 27.? Finally progressed to step 3 of 4.? Place in queue #644.
  • Monday October 28:? #633.
  • Tuesday October 29:? #618.
  • Wednesday October 30:? #584.
  • Thursday October 31:? #553.? The pace does seem to be picking up but we¡¯re still looking at 2-4 more weeks if this continues.
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A few dozen members have already signed up at Groups.io, the rest are content to wait for the automatic switch.
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Clearly Groups.io overpromised, though they didn¡¯t get the Yahoo bombshell any sooner than we did.
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Not complainin¡¯, though.? Most members of my group live in or near Washington DC and we¡¯ve had plenty else to do this week.? Proud of our Nats!
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