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Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io? #yahoo

 

I've put my old yahoo group in full moderate mode so that if anyone tries posting there it won't go through and I will get a message asking me to moderate the post. Then I email them and tell them we've moved to groups.io.

Is there a way to automate this process? Can I have yahoo auto-respond to posters with a message of my own creation?

Sorry to ask here, but yahoo help and tech support are useless at this point. I couldn't find it searching the web and I figure there are a lot of former Yahoo moderators here.

Thanks
Re: Including the message being responded to

 

On 15 Nov 2019 15:38, Bruce Bowman wrote:

Click on the "quote bubble" icon on the far left end of the editor toolbar.
Oh, I have egg on my face!

The tooltip for that speech bubble icon is "Quote whole post". Screenshot attached.

Samuel

quote whole post.png

Re: How are "Links" represented in Groups.io after migrating my group from Yahoo! Groups? #links #transfer #migration #yahoo

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 01:03 AM, Matt Wirkkala wrote:
Tips like this it might be nice to be given some focus in the Transfer FAQ, for Groups.io noobs like me.
I had added it on Nov 12. But I just bulleted the list of items transferred for emphasis since it was obviously overlooked!

Frances
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Re: sharing old posts

 
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On 15 Nov 2019 15:30, Suzanne H wrote:

Would another way be to use the static url of the original post?? Could everyone in the group see that?
Yes, everyone in the group should be able to see the URL of the original post. To get that URL, right-click the message number in the top right of the message, and select "copy link location" or similar.

Samuel
Re: Removed member keeps rejoining, even though group is restricted

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:13 AM, Shal Farley wrote:
It feels like one shouldn't have to put on a ban just to guard against the re-use of a stale invitation
Has the stale invitation been removed from the sent list?? I was under the impression that when an invitation was canceled/removed that it could no longer be accepted.? If that's not true, that could be a solution to this situation.

I know that on the Trello list (which hasn't been updated in over a year) there are several items under the Invitations list, including making that system 'smarter'.

Duane
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Re: Second group to be transferred - stuck with the invitation process #transfer

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:40 AM, Jens-Uwe Mager wrote:
With the second group (which is already a paying group) I invited [email protected]?and nothing happens. On the first group I was asked to make the transfer user a moderator, but nothing happened yet. Any clues what might go wrong here?
Jens-Uwe -- Like many aspects of Yahoo Groups, sometimes the invitation system is balky.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/22605?for instructions on how to proceed.

Regards,
Bruce
Second group to be transferred - stuck with the invitation process #transfer

 

I did transfer my first group fine, and all works nice. With the second group (which is already a paying group) I invited [email protected]?and nothing happens. On the first group I was asked to make the transfer user a moderator, but nothing happened yet. Any clues what might go wrong here?
Re: Members being auto-approved regardless of 'approval required' setting

 

Tina,
You don't have to take it down. :) ?Your mistakes are comforting to the rest of us who make them too

Kathleen
Re: Including the message being responded to

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:37 AM, b&p wrote:
When I click to reply to a message on the page, there are several options, but none I have found that will also automatically include the message being responded?to.
Click on the "quote bubble" icon on the far left end of the editor toolbar.

Is there a way to set the reply to include it routinely?
No.

Bruce
Including the message being responded to

b&p
 

When I click to reply to a message on the page, there are several options, but none I have found that will also automatically include the message being responded?to. Is there a way to set the reply to include it routinely?

Here's how I'm bridging the issue when I remember: for now, I can include what I'm replying to if I use Outlook on Windows 7 to reply; also, if I'm on my Gmail home page, there's a little icon with three dots at the bottom of the reply window which I can click on to add what I'm replying to. (Two issues: I need to convert Windows 7 to Windows 10 and I don't know how that will work; and Gmail has been going crazy lately randomly putting a few hundred items of my inbox, including new mail from whitelisted senders, into spam. The e-adventures never end....)

Any advice is welcome on either issue. Thanks!

Paul (b&p)
Re: sharing old posts

 

On 15 Nov 2019 15:25, ro-esp wrote:

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:12 PM, Suzanne H wrote:

I want to share some of our best old post that just got transferred to our new
io group.? I don't see a forward button.? What is the best way to share a
post from the archive?
Use the reply-button?
The Reply link causes your message to be send back to the group.

If you use the Reply link, there is sometimes a button called "Private", but pressing it allows you only to send a message to the original author of the message, and not to some third party.

[Suzanne is referring to posts that are in the group's message archive, which can only be viewed via the web site (not via her e-mail system).]

Samuel
Re: sharing old posts

 

I'm only trying to share it within the group - to highlight wonderful posts from the past.? I need to do this from the web interface since I no longer have those posts in my email.
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When I used the reply button, it didn't seem to quote the message I was replying to - Can I control that?
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Would another way be to use the static url of the original post?? Could everyone in the group see that?
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Suzanne Haggerty

[Privacy notice and phone number trimmed by Moderator]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 9:25 AM ro-esp <ro-esp@...> wrote:

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:12 PM, Suzanne H wrote:

>
> I want to share some of our best old post that just got transferred to our new
> io group.? I don't see a forward button.? What is the best way to share a
> post from the archive?

use the reply-button?

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? groetjes, Ronaldo
Re: Problem response uploading member addresses

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 08:40 AM, CVActor wrote:
Everything was in a text document in a one-column table.
Cindi -- This is the clue. There is no such thing as a "table" in a plain text file.

To convert Excel to plain text, do the following:
  1. Select the column containing the email addresses
  2. Type Ctrl-C to copy that column to your clipboard
  3. Open a new Word document and paste it into that
  4. Highlight the resulting table again
  5. Type "convert table to text" into the help box. In the dialog, select "separate text with paragraph marks"
  6. From the File menu, select "Save As"
  7. Save as type Plain Text (*.txt)
  8. In the resulting dialog, select MS-DOS text encoding and CR/LF line breaks
The resulting file should be acceptable to the groups.io invitation "Upload Addresses" dialog. If there's any extraneous stuff present and you don't want those lines to throw an error, you can open the file one last time and trim it using Notepad.

Bruce
Re: sharing old posts

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:12 PM, Suzanne H wrote:


I want to share some of our best old post that just got transferred to our new
io group.? I don't see a forward button.? What is the best way to share a
post from the archive?
use the reply-button?

groetjes, Ronaldo
Re: I¡¯ve lost all groups, including several I am owner of

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:16 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
but could not log in with either account
Have you tried using the Send Me a Link option?? You could try it for both email addresses.? That should at least get you on the site, then you could figure out what's going on.

Duane
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Re: To those who are new to Groups io

b&p
 

Thank you. We seem to have our group in its proper place and "fully loaded," so when I get back from work I'll re-set the moderator panel as you suggest.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:36 AM Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
b&p,

?> ... but have been overwhelmed with messages - about 125 a day, ...

In addition to the option to go to Digest or Summary for now, I'll also
recommend having a look on your Subscription page for GMF, in the
Advanced Preferences section (an expander).

Selecting "Following Only", "First Message Also", and "Auto Follow
Replies" together gives you a good way to keep up with the Topics that
are being discussed, without being buried under all the replies to the
topics.

If you find a given Topic to be of interest, click the "Follow Topic"
link that will be in the footer of the message. Then you will receive
all the replies to that Topic.

Of course, this works best when other members choose good Subject lines
for their new topics. ("Help" being the canonical example of a bad
Subject line - it doesn't tell anyone anything about what you need help
with). It also works best when topics don't drift off-topic.

Neither of those ideals are fully realized (at least, not in any help
group I've ever been in), but setting a good example always helps - my
thanks to those that do.

So there's another approach to managing GMF's current tendency to flood
your inbox. Or any other busy group.

Shal


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Re: Best path to pull YG here if same name exists here already #askmembers

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:02 AM, <reichart@...> wrote:
perhaps it would be cool for the architect of this site to allow others to 'donate' premium accounts and the like to groups
That can already be done, within limits.? The group owner could make someone a moderator with Billing permission, then they could pay for the group.? On Premium groups, there is also the Donation page that can be set up to accept donations from members using the Stripe service.? And you can always post a link to another payment service on your group.? It's ultimately up to the group owner how things are handled.

Duane
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Re: change it from Topics back to Messages. WHY?

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:15 AM, psb b wrote:
Until this past week or so
Messages has always been selected, I liked it.
The site 'remembers' which view you've used last.? If you choose a group from the drop down list of Your Groups at the top, it will be in the format that you last used.? If you select a group from the overview page (Your Groups on the left menu), it's hard coded to Topics view.? It's been suggested that this behavior be consistent, but it hasn't been addressed yet.

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Re: change it from Topics back to Messages. WHY?

 

On 15 Nov 2019 14:04, psb b via Groups.Io wrote:

Now
EVERYDAY
I have to change it from Topics back to Messages. ?WHY?
It could be that you have accidentally bookmarked the topics URL, or it could be that your browser "remembers" the topics URL and therefore prefers to go to it when you don't watch out.

Try updating your bookmarks and/or edit your browser history:

Topics: /g/GROUPNAME/topics
Messages: /g/GROUPNAME/messages
Messages expanded: /g/GROUPNAME/messages?expanded=1

Samuel
Re: rejected payment

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:13 AM, Jerrie wrote:
how to get in touch with groups io, don't seem to find any contact info
You should use the [email protected] address for problems.

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