Bruce,

When I go to:

? ?home -> myname?-> Account -> Identity -> Account Profile -> Edit

I see a "Profile Privacy" setting which gives me the option to make my profile public.? ?

I have the following questions about public profiles:

• Is it only information on my "Account Profile" which is made public?? ?
• Will people be able to contact me if I make my profile public?? ?
• Can I see what my profile looks like to the public?? ?
• Is there a way to search for public profiles?

Thanks
Ben Slade
Kensington MD

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Duane, speaking for myself, there have been at least two times when the instructions had not been updated and nobody realized it until I posted here and said the instructions that were available didn’t work.?

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 02:43 PM, J R wrote:

Hi,

I just transferred my Yahoo Owner Group to Groups.io. I am also a member of several other groups?that?also transferred over. On Groups.io both my Owner Group and the other groups have separate accounts, each with different sign-in information (Email Address & Password).?

Previously on the Yahoo Group Home Page on the upper right, if I clicked on my name I had a choice of?my different accounts and?I could choose which one I wanted to go to?see?the groups in that account. I'm wondering if Groups.io has the same option? Having to sign-in and out of each account has been driving me crazy, and is very time consuming!

Janet

You can have more than one groups.io webpage open at once and each one signed in with its, in your case, unique account. For all groups except your owner group you would have to logout with your owner account then sign in with your account appropriate to that group. DOes that make sense?

Margaret
UK

On 13 Nov 2019 15:34, J R via Groups.Io wrote:

Previously on the Yahoo Group Home Page on the upper right, if I clicked on my name I had a choice of?my different accounts and?I could choose which one I wanted to go to?see?the groups in that account.

I confirm that this Chrome/Vivaldi extension works:


It creates and stores separate sessions in the browser, which can be accessed by clicking the extension's icon. It looks like one can also keep two sessions open simultaneously in two tabs, and switch between them without having to log in and out all the time.

Does anyone know of other extensions that does this?

Samuel

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 07:56 AM, Susan B wrote:

but I think the group owners asking here have for the most part done their due diligence and are now frustrated to the nth degree because they don’t understand something or can’t find it.?

That may be the case for some, but certainly isn't for others.? A question such as "How do I check my transfer status?" is easily answered by searching/reading previous messages here, yet it still comes up regularly.? The messages (and Wiki pages) can even be read by the public, no membership in the group required, so it does get a it tiresome sometimes.

I do have to remind myself that I've been here for almost 5 years, so finding and understanding things seems 'easy' to me.? But I also realize that there have been a LOT of changes and updates in that time.? I've been able to 'grow' with the system, so didn't have to learn it all at once (and under pressure ;>)? When I started, there wasn't even any Files or Photos storage!
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Duane
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On 13 Nov 2019 15:41, Chris Jones via Groups.Io wrote:

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 02:37 PM, Sharon Pohlman wrote:

I don't like this option I wonder how often this happens

"Option"; which option are you referring to?

The way I understand Sharon's message is that she was hoping for an option to turn off the notification that is sent to the owner or moderator.

This is, after all, what the original notification implies, i.e. that there is way to turn of those particular types of notifications.

In other words, she's not trying to turn off the fact that members get removed, or the fact that members get a notification when they are removed, but the notification telling her, as moderator, that a member had been removed for this specific reason.

Sharonb, you can't turn off notifications about members leaving unless you also turn off notifications about members joining. This is weird, IMO, but that's the way it currently is.

There is also no separate notification for members who were *removed*. There is only a notification for members who "leave", regardless of whether they left by their own choosing or left because they were removed by either Groups.io or by a moderator.

In addition, you can't turn off (or turn on) notifications for specific *reasons* of leaving. You can't choose not to receive notifications about members who left for this or that reason.

If you're a moderator (or owner), then you are forced to receive notifications about members leaving or members who have been removed, if you also want to receive notifications about members joining.

What you can do, is to use separate e-mail addresses for normal participation and for participation as a moderator/owner.

Samuel

I'm probably in that silent majority. I recently completed the transfer of a group with over 20 years of history. We'd had to migrate within Yahoogroups twice because were approaching the archive limit. All three groups, plus a couple of smaller ancillary groups, transferred with very few issues. Of my 800+ current subscribers, only three had some kind of database error, according to the report email, and needed to be added manually. The report indicated a problem with the databases, but as far as I can see they're intact. The only thing that didn't come over properly were the links, but since most of them have been dead for five years or more, that wasn't a problem!

I did notice that not all of the messages showed up in our archives immediately. The topic count grew over the course of a couple of days, and it now looks more or less correct. At least, I haven't seen any obvious holes in the history.

As for paranoia, anyone whose membership is pitching a fit over the move might want to state up front that Groups.io's privacy policy is [i]much[/i] friendlier than Yahoo's, and since Groups isn't advertiser-driven, it's more likely to remain that way.?
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:54 AM, Fabien wrote:

If a member sends a message, and I want to let them know why it was not approved, I know you can send a message that does it automatically when you do not approve it, but also how do you do it with the reason why, and to that specific member?

Fabien -- When you click the Reject button, a dialog box pops up where you can do just that.

Hopefully I making sense here.

Not a whole lot, to be honest, unless there's a fine point that I'm missing. I suggest you put yourself on moderation, send some messages to your own group, reject them, and get in some practice that way.

Regards,
Bruce

Hello,
If a member sends a message, and I want to let them know why it was not approved, I know you can send a message that does it automatically when you do not approve it, but also how do you do it with the reason why, and to that specific member? Hopefully I making sense here.
Blessings,
Fabien

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:43 AM, J R wrote:

Previously on the Yahoo Group Home Page on the upper right, if I clicked on my name I had a choice of?my different accounts and?I could choose which one I wanted to go to?see?the groups in that account. I'm wondering if Groups.io has the same option?

J R -- No, this is not an available option.

Having to sign-in and out of each account has been driving me crazy, and is very time consuming!

Well, at least you figured out what was going on! Many folks struggle with that.

Instructions on how to merge accounts can be found at?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Profile-and-Email-Address-and-Merging-Accounts

Bruce

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 02:37 PM, Sharon Pohlman wrote:

I don't like this option I wonder how often this happens?

"Option"; which option are you referring to?

It happens quite a lot until members find out how to reduce the risk, if not eliminate it. And IMHO moderators need to know that it is happening.

Chris

Check your subscription = checkboxes there.

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Hi,

I just transferred my Yahoo Owner Group to Groups.io. I am also a member of several other groups?that?also transferred over. On Groups.io both my Owner Group and the other groups have separate accounts, each with different sign-in information (Email Address & Password).?

Previously on the Yahoo Group Home Page on the upper right, if I clicked on my name I had a choice of?my different accounts and?I could choose which one I wanted to go to?see?the groups in that account. I'm wondering if Groups.io has the same option? Having to sign-in and out of each account has been driving me crazy, and is very time consuming!

Thanks,
Janet

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:37 AM, Sharon Pohlman wrote:

I don't like this option I wonder how often this happens?

Sharon -- To be totally clear, it is not an option that you can turn on and off.

What happened is that this recipient's email service sent a request to groups.io to stop sending "messages like this." Rather than risk developing a reputation for sending unwanted emails, groups.io complied.



Bruce

On 13 Nov 2019 15:11, Sharon Pohlman via Groups.Io wrote:

I got this in email: But I don't know what to "TURN OFF".

I had the same question when I first joined. I suspect you have to go to /g/<groupname>/editsub, which is *your* subscription and notification settings. Different owners and moderators from the same group can have individual notification settings.

The "notifications" are about halfway down the page. I'm just not sure which of the notifications you should disable.

The official help file says nothing about these settings:
/static/help#subscription-options

The GMF wiki page on this happens also does not say how you (the moderator) can turn off notification of when this happens to a user:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Removed-for-spam

Samuel

Yahoo had an evil “delete this group” button in a location that was much too easy to access in error and was followed by a not terribly obvious <are you certain you want to delete this group> notice. Add a little distraction or cat on your keyboard and your group could go poof.?

Patti

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:12 AM, Sharon Pohlman wrote:

I got this in email: But I don't know what to "TURN OFF "

Sharon -- The question is:? Do you want to STOP receiving notifications that your subscribers have been removed? If not, then there is nothing to turn off.

If you want to keep this from happening altogether, the shortest answer I can give you is...you can't.

If you know please be specific because to be honest I have problems following a short explanation .? I would need to know go here look for this , click that

If you want to know what's going on, we have a wiki page for this kind of incident at?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Removed-for-spam

It is not brief, but there's no way to give a satisfactory explanation in one or two sentences.

Regards,
Bruce