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Re: invite list has to be approved?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI believe so. I sent out 300 envites, the thing had to approve all of the invite list and send it to the valid email addresses.Take care
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invite list has to be approved?
I am moving a list from yahoo groups to groups.io.? Rather than migrating the list, which would create a different set of problems, we set up the group here, and sent an invite email to users of the old list, using the invite function and a text file.? I uploaded the text file and got this message:
Once your invites have been approved, they will be sent out. You will receive a notification when this happens. I am wondering, approved by whom? I have not seen this message before when sending out invites. Does this mean that someone at groups.io has to look at the invite list before the invites go out? If so, does the number of emails in an invite list trigger this review? Does anyone know how long this takes? Thanks, Bill |
Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
Duane, I know some plan to keep the Y! groups in place for awhile, if nothing more than an archive or pointer to io, Yup. A "we've moved" sign for anyone that comes across them. but will you eventually delete them?? Will you ask your members to delete their Y! accounts if possible? No and no. In fact I'll try to remember to keep my accounts active so that I can continue to "reject with reply" anyone who happens to post in those groups. Shal |
Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
With several thousand members we wanted to make sure everybody gets the word. So, we will keep our Y! group till the end. Our group homepage there explains that it is now inactive and points people to our new home on Groups.io.
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All of our Y! group email auto responders also point to the new group: if someone tries to join the Yahoo group they get an email saying it is inactive and pointing them to the new group. The same if someone quits the Y! group-- the goodbye message contains a link to our Groups.io group in case they don't already know about it. Also, we put the Y! group under moderation-- if someone tries to post there we send them a notice about our new home on Groups.io. The Y! group is an archive also. If Yahoo/Verizon/Oath wants to continue it, fine with us. We would like our members to get rid of their Yahoo Mail accounts however. There are a lot of them and the "unsubscribed due to reporting spam" and the email address mangling in message posts are a constant irritation. Drew On 12/13/17 03:33, Duane wrote:
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Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýWhen I set up our new group in groups.io, I devised a plan to attrition the Yahoo group and discussed with my co-moderator. Our plan was to eventually make our Yahoo group still open but inactive. I sent an email announcement to our Yahoo group with our plan, giving them sufficient time to set up an account on groups.io and joining our group. We don't plan to close our Yahoo group but just let it sit there, in case we need to go back to refer to old posts. There is nothing there in our Yahoo group that is THAT important to keep. I have our member list downloaded and any files that we have I have maintained myself. I wanted to post the announcement on the Yahoo banner of our home page regarding our move to groups.io, but with the neo have been unable to make any banner or home photo adjustments. Makes me even more grateful of our move to groups.io and wish we had done it much, much earlier.-----
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On 12/13/2017 3:33 AM, Duane wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:50 pm, J_Catlady wrote: |
Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI have moved only two small groups.? In one case, I deleted all the members except myself.? This allowed me to catch emails sent by non-subscribers (which was allowed on that group), alert those specific non-subscribers to the new address and forward those messages to the new group on groups.io.? In the other case, I was able to poll all members and delete the yahoo group once they approved of that step. Cacky On 12/13/2017 2:33 AM, Duane wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:50 pm, J_Catlady wrote: |
Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýOur groups are still up because pointers from other places out of our control send folks to the yahoo groups .. more people know about yahoo groups so if they sign up there we can still message them ?and point them to the right place to sign up. Rachel On Dec 13, 2017, at 3:33 AM, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:
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What will you do with your Y! Groups?
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:50 pm, J_Catlady wrote:
I'm glad I'm outta there!This reminded me of a question I've been wondering about.? For those that move to Groups.io, what will you do with your Y! Groups?? When the neo fiasco happened, I immediately looked for a refuge.? After I got set up on io, I asked all members that could/would to delete their Y! accounts, then deleted the groups that came with me.? I figured the fewer groups and members, the less revenue would be generated to support Y!.? They used to tout the huge number of groups and members in their advertising, but I'm not sure if they still do.? Of course, that included all the dormant groups and spam havens.? Probably a bit like jousting with windmills, but... I know some plan to keep the Y! groups in place for awhile, if nothing more than an archive or pointer to io, but will you eventually delete them?? Will you ask your members to delete their Y! accounts if possible? Duane |
Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
J,
Watching yahoo groups blow up ...Reports vary widely. Some users/groups have apparently been unaffected by recent outages while others severely so. Panic about the sinking of Yahoo Groups has been a recurring theme through the years. But as the fellow in Monty Python and the Holy Grail said: "I'm not dead yet." Shal |
Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
J_Catlady
Watching yahoo groups blow up is reminiscent of watching the Deepwater Horizon blow up. I watched the movie last night. It starts small, with some warnings about pressure gauges. Some people ignore them, others are alarmed but no one listens. Then, shoots of oil start bursting through, at first small and then larger until the whole ship is awash in them and then the whole thing catches fire....I'm glad I'm outta there!
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Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
In my experience the EMAIL route to invite/join is broken. The invited
member does receive the email but if they just reply to that nothing else happens and they are not subscribed. But if they click the link in that email which takes them to the group home page they can then complete the subscription. Groups.io presumably does that - remember they know all the ins and outs of yahoogroups. Whatever, invites for [email protected] clearly do work, many of us have done that recently. Dave On 12 Dec 2017 at 21:06, Ruth Levi wrote: i am able to promote members to moderator status(that feature was |
Re: Reply to Message
NYILLogistics,
How do you set the reply to message only to the Sender ?As a matter of group policy, go to the Settings page and in the "Message Policies" section set the "Reply To" option to "Sender". If you're talking about replying to an individual message it does depend on the group policy (as above) and whether you're replying via the group's Messages section or via your email interface. Assuming the group is set to "Group", and replying via the Messages section, click Reply then look below the reply composition box and to the right. Click the "Private" button. That will change the green "Reply to Group" button to a blue "Reply to Sender" button. When you're ready to send your reply click that blue button. Assuming the group is set to "Group", and replying via your email interface, the details may depend on what email interface you're using. In Thunderbird, for example, I would copy your address in the From field of your message, click reply, then paste your address into the To field of my reply, replacing the group's address. Because your email address is modified for DMARC, I then have to delete the "@groups.io" part and replace the = sign with an @ sign. That is, convert: user = example.com @ groups.io into user @ example.com Shal |
Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
ruthie,
we have been experiencing this phenomenon in our group for months,Yes, but groups.io is not your typical email provider. Again, no harm in trying it. perhaps a Plan B is needed for transfers, if this is a more widespreadI think an email to [email protected], including the name of your Yahoo Group, is about as good a plan B as could be. Shal |
Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
we have been experiencing this phenomenon in our group for months, across all email providers. the invites just never arrive, not in spam either.
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perhaps a Plan B is needed for transfers, if this is a more widespread problem On Dec 12, 2017, at 9:16 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote: |
Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
J_Catlady
If yahoo invite is really not working, I'm sure you could persuade Mark to apply to your group To make it easier, you could make your group unrestricted temporarily, until he joins. Just an idea. J On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Ruth Levi <ruthlevi@...> wrote: i am able to promote members to moderator status(that feature was broken, |
Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
ruthie,
# 3 happens...i hv been trying it today myself, n anticipation of theA number of things can happen between the invite page and the invitee's inbox. Most common is that the invitation gets diverted to the invitee's Spam folder. Sometimes the invitee's email service drops or rejects the invitation. I suppose it is possible that sometimes Yahoo Groups fails to send the invite, but I don't know how to get evidence of that. I'd say try it (with [email protected]) anyway. If it fails no harm done and if it works it saves you and Mark some time working around it. Shal |
Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
i am able to promote members to moderator status(that feature was broken,
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but now fixed, surprisingly) # 3 happens...i hv been trying it today myself, n anticipation of the big move to IO, with various email addresses & the invites never arrive. the system shows them as having happened, but the invite emails never arrive. -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shal Farley Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 9:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GMF] in reviewing the transfer instructions ruthie, > i am not sure how i can accomplish the first step.i have not been able > to use the invite feature in my yahoogroup for months, so how can i > invite [email protected] to my old yahoogroup? If you can't you can't. But perhaps you could write to [email protected] and ask them to subscribe to your group. Assuming you can approve the transfer agent (if needed) and promote to moderator. I'm curious what happens when you try to invite someone. 1) Do you not even see the Manage Invitations item in the group's Management menu (meaning that you haven't been granted that privilege)? 2) Do you get some kind of error message when you fill in the Invite page? 3) Does the invite page seem to work, but the invitees never seem to get the invitation? 4) Something else? If (3) I would suggest trying that for the transfer address anyway. Mark is more savvy than the average user. Shal |
Re: using the invite feature
J_Catlady
This has nothing to do with moderation. It has to do with being a membership-restricted group or not. Once they're in, they will be moderated or not according to the group policy (unmoderated, moderated, or NuM). J On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Frances <frances@...> wrote: Hi Ruthie |
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