Re: How to insert email address into the Welcome notice #welcomeemail #question

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Bruce, thanks for the reply.

I think if I understand you correctly, the "You have been added" message in the link that I posted is separate from the "Welcome" notice. Is this correct? So when I transfer my Yahoo Group, members will receive both the Welcome notice that I've customized, and the "You have been added" message that I cannot customize??

It would be great if the wiki page could make that more clear, if that's the case.

Thanks again.
-Joan

Re: How to insert email address into the Welcome notice #welcomeemail #question

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 03:39 PM, Joan Leib wrote:

I was looking at sample Welcome notices and found this on the wiki for this group -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Added-Message-for-YG-transfer
The sample text says "You have been subscribed to the new group using your email address?user@..." and I can't figure out how they inserted the email address.

Groups.io parses your list of subscribers and inserts this [Email Address] field itself when a notification is sent to each person who is transferred.

I would like to be able to have my customized Welcome message give the email address it's being sent to; what code can I use for this? Is this actually possible?

No. Although [Name] and [Email Address] fields are similarly inserted into notices of type Invite and Direct Add, none of this can be customized.

Bruce

How to insert email address into the Welcome notice #welcomeemail #question

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Hi, newbie here and sorry if this is a dumb question. I've searched in the archives on this group and the Help pages, and haven't been able to figure this out.

I was looking at sample Welcome notices and found this on the wiki for this group -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Added-Message-for-YG-transfer
The sample text says "You have been subscribed to the new group using your email address?user@..." and I can't figure out how they inserted the email address. I would like to be able to have my customized Welcome message give the email address it's being sent to; what code can I use for this? Is this actually possible?

Thanks in advance!
-Joan

Re: Can we disable replies to a posting?

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Regarding your concern about education being on going due to new members, there is a monthly message option that you could send to your group to educate them every month.?

On Nov 19, 2019 12:24 PM, "Gary Gabaccia via Groups.Io" <ggabaccia@...> wrote:

Thanks to all for your replies. I’m going to take a little bit from everybody. I’ve changed the default behavior to Reply-to-sender, uncheck the Remove Other Reply Options so that the Reply to Group will be in the footer and educate the current users as best I can. One problem with the education approach is that we tend to add about 20 new users per month, so the education would go on forever. But thanks to everyone. I appreciate your help.

On Nov 19, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 02:05 PM, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

So, my question is: is there a way to change this in some system setting so that the reply only goes to the sender. Or, alternatively, is there a way to disable replies completely so that a response to the sender would have to be done by forwarding the note to the individual’s email address? I can alert our members to the difference in the system, but I know that won’t work, at least not for long. People automatically just hit REPLY. I think I need to proactively stop them at a group level.
Gary -- As Duane said, you can change the default behavior to "Reply to Sender" in your group settings (Message Policies>Reply To). This assumes that each email client your subscribers use honors the reply-to field in the message header, though. If you have a few folks whose software ignores this and instead replies to the From: field, you might have to put those on moderation.

If you also UNcheck the "Remove Other Reply Options" box, there will be a "reply to group" link in each message footer, so those who really do need to reply to the group can conveniently do so.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Gary Gabaccia
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Re: Can we disable replies to a posting?

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Thanks to all for your replies. I’m going to take a little bit from everybody. I’ve changed the default behavior to Reply-to-sender, uncheck the Remove Other Reply Options so that the Reply to Group will be in the footer and educate the current users as best I can. One problem with the education approach is that we tend to add about 20 new users per month, so the education would go on forever. But thanks to everyone. I appreciate your help.

On Nov 19, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 02:05 PM, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

So, my question is: is there a way to change this in some system setting so that the reply only goes to the sender. Or, alternatively, is there a way to disable replies completely so that a response to the sender would have to be done by forwarding the note to the individual’s email address? I can alert our members to the difference in the system, but I know that won’t work, at least not for long. People automatically just hit REPLY. I think I need to proactively stop them at a group level.
Gary -- As Duane said, you can change the default behavior to "Reply to Sender" in your group settings (Message Policies>Reply To). This assumes that each email client your subscribers use honors the reply-to field in the message header, though. If you have a few folks whose software ignores this and instead replies to the From: field, you might have to put those on moderation.

If you also UNcheck the "Remove Other Reply Options" box, there will be a "reply to group" link in each message footer, so those who really do need to reply to the group can conveniently do so.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Gary Gabaccia
ggabaccia@...

Re: Can we disable replies to a posting?

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 02:05 PM, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

So, my question is: is there a way to change this in some system setting so that the reply only goes to the sender. Or, alternatively, is there a way to disable replies completely so that a response to the sender would have to be done by forwarding the note to the individual’s email address? I can alert our members to the difference in the system, but I know that won’t work, at least not for long. People automatically just hit REPLY. I think I need to proactively stop them at a group level.

Gary -- As Duane said, you can change the default behavior to "Reply to Sender" in your group settings (Message Policies>Reply To). This assumes that each email client your subscribers use honors the reply-to field in the message header, though. If you have a few folks whose software ignores this and instead replies to the From: field, you might have to put those on moderation.

If you also UNcheck the "Remove Other Reply Options" box, there will be a "reply to group" link in each message footer, so those who really do need to reply to the group can conveniently do so.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Re: Can we disable replies to a posting?

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:05 PM Gary Gabaccia <ggabaccia@...
<mailto:ggabaccia@...>> wrote:

The problem arises when the subscribers receive a message from an
owner and want to reply. The replies are frequently not meaningful to
the entire group and intended only for the sender, often along the
lines of “Thank you” or “Can I get more information?”.So, how about educating the moderators to always add a hashtag to the
ends of their posts' subject lines -- a hashtag that is moderated?

Not all members who reply to posts will keep the subject line intact,
but for those that do, the replies should be stopped before they reach
the list.  I'm no expert at hashtags, but is that how hashtags work?

Samuel

[Apparently it's also possible to use hashtags to override the reply
preferences (set the group to "reply to group" but a certain hashtag
makes all replies to that one topic go "reply to sender", or vice
versa), but I have been unable to achieve this in my tests.  In fact, I
have been unable to get "reply to sender" to work at all -- all test
e-mails for which I hit the "reply" button in my mail program gets sent
back to the list, and the original sender's e-mail address is nowhere.]

Re: Can we disable replies to a posting?

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Keep in mind that some lists you are on such as one for example I got banned from as the owner hates me, long story, don't have the reply to sender option. I have now forgotten nwy as that conversation was sometime last year on either this group or the beta group, or maybe it was group help. But I know about but never use these options, but instead log onto the site and hit reply to sender. More than one way to skin a cat and so forth.

Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP.

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On 19 Nov 2019, at 11:11, Duane wrote:

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:05 PM, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

is there a way to change this in some system setting so that the reply only goes to the sender.
You could change the setting for Reply To under Message Policies to Sender.? That swings the pendulum the other way though so there's no response posted on the group.

You could also educate the members about the links at the bottom of messages.? There should be a Reply to Sender link there.

There's not an easy way to do both.

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Re: Can we disable replies to a posting?

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:05 PM, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

is there a way to change this in some system setting so that the reply only goes to the sender.

You could change the setting for Reply To under Message Policies to Sender.? That swings the pendulum the other way though so there's no response posted on the group.

You could also educate the members about the links at the bottom of messages.? There should be a Reply to Sender link there.

There's not an easy way to do both.

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Re: Can we disable replies to a posting?

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There is a reply to sender option at the bottom of each email message.

Can you educate your members about it and encourage them to use it when appropriate?

MKR

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:05 PM Gary Gabaccia <ggabaccia@...> wrote:

This may be an odd question, but I would appreciate any ideas.

My group has a problem with replies to messages. Most messages are sent by one of the three owners of the group, though we do want each subscriber to have the ability to post if they choose to. The problem arises when the subscribers receive a message from an owner and want to reply. The replies are frequently not meaningful to the entire group and intended only for the sender, often along the lines of “Thank you” or “Can I get more information?”. But when a subscriber hits REPLY, their response goes to all 700+ members of the group. And some of them are getting pretty cranky about it.

Before we transferred over from our Yahoo Group, we solved this problem by putting the Yahoo Group email address on the bcc line, in which case the reply only went to the individual who sent it. In our new group, even when the message was sent with the ?address on the bcc line, if the subscriber hits REPLY, it goes to the entire group. In fact, there’s a line at the top of the note that looks like this:

So, my question is: is there a way to change this in some system setting so that the reply only goes to the sender. Or, alternatively, is there a way to disable replies completely so that a response to the sender would have to be done by forwarding the note to the individual’s email address? I can alert our members to the difference in the system, but I know that won’t work, at least not for long. People automatically just hit REPLY. I think I need to proactively stop them at a group level.

Thank you.

Gary Gabaccia
ggabaccia@...

Can we disable replies to a posting?

#24278

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This may be an odd question, but I would appreciate any ideas.

My group has a problem with replies to messages. Most messages are sent by one of the three owners of the group, though we do want each subscriber to have the ability to post if they choose to. The problem arises when the subscribers receive a message from an owner and want to reply. The replies are frequently not meaningful to the entire group and intended only for the sender, often along the lines of “Thank you” or “Can I get more information?”. But when a subscriber hits REPLY, their response goes to all 700+ members of the group. And some of them are getting pretty cranky about it.

Before we transferred over from our Yahoo Group, we solved this problem by putting the Yahoo Group email address on the bcc line, in which case the reply only went to the individual who sent it. In our new group, even when the message was sent with the ?address on the bcc line, if the subscriber hits REPLY, it goes to the entire group. In fact, there’s a line at the top of the note that looks like this:

So, my question is: is there a way to change this in some system setting so that the reply only goes to the sender. Or, alternatively, is there a way to disable replies completely so that a response to the sender would have to be done by forwarding the note to the individual’s email address? I can alert our members to the difference in the system, but I know that won’t work, at least not for long. People automatically just hit REPLY. I think I need to proactively stop them at a group level.

Thank you.

Gary Gabaccia
ggabaccia@...

Re: Backlog

#24277

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:14 PM, M K Ramadoss wrote:

Suppose there is some backlog.

Now that they're caught up, Mark may have 'fired' the folks that were helping - family, friends, etc. ;>)

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Re: Backlog

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:32 PM, M K Ramadoss wrote:

Some transfer requests made yesterday are still in invite acceptance stage.

Before the flood, this was always the longest step in the process, because it involves solving a CAPTCHA.

Bruce

Re: Backlog

#24275

No problem. Status is shown as acceptance is pending. Suppose there is some backlog.

MKR

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:37 AM Frances <frances@...> wrote:

There is also a note on Beta group saying:

If you are having issues with a Yahoo Group transfer, go to /yahootransfer?and select your transfer from the dropdown on the bottom right. It will have status information about your request.

Frances
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Re: Upgrading to Premium

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:09 PM, Bob Bellizzi wrote:

I've paid for several years using PayPal.

Do you use a PP credit/debit card?? On the Upgrade page, there's only a place to enter CC information, nothing about PP.

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Re: Backlog

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I also saw Mark's msg.

May be situation might have changed since then.

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:35 AM Frances <frances@...> wrote:

The only update I see in Beta is from Friday Nov 15, 2019

As of this morning, we've completely worked through the backlog of Yahoo Group transfer requests. It took 29 days, but we did it. :-)

?

I've removed the option to pay for a priority transfer.

?

I'm still only responding to support emails from premium group owners right now. There's just too much otherwise. Also, the beta group is still moderated.

?

A reminder: please get your transfer requests in by the end of the month.

?

Thanks,

Mark

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Re: Upgrading to Premium

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I've paid for several years using PayPal.
I believe Stripe is set up for donations to the group owner
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Re: Hiding contact info from others

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:07 AM, Carter Schroy wrote:

I'd like to hide her completely from the directory listing members can access.

Have her change the setting for her Profile Privacy to "Only group owners & moderators".? That will keep it from showing in the Directory that other members see.? You can't do it for her.

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Re: Backlog

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There is also a note on Beta group saying:

If you are having issues with a Yahoo Group transfer, go to /yahootransfer?and select your transfer from the dropdown on the bottom right. It will have status information about your request.

Frances
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Re: Backlog

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The only update I see in Beta is from Friday Nov 15, 2019

As of this morning, we've completely worked through the backlog of Yahoo Group transfer requests. It took 29 days, but we did it. :-)

?

I've removed the option to pay for a priority transfer.

?

I'm still only responding to support emails from premium group owners right now. There's just too much otherwise. Also, the beta group is still moderated.

?

A reminder: please get your transfer requests in by the end of the month.

?

Thanks,

Mark

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