I had asked a question related to this a few days ago but got no answer. The question is this. I have created four subgroups. It would be nice, although not necessary, to have messages in each group color coded to identify the group. I thought hashtags might do this, but I discovered in the settup that when I make hashtags required, all it does is require a member to create a hashtag for each message created. Not only would this be annoying to subgroup members, but I have it set up so only I can create hashtags. Is there a way to color code messages, if hashtags are not the way to do it, for each subgroup?
Stan
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On 2/19/2018 10:46 AM, J_Catlady wrote: Yes, it's a very old topic. I had to look up to the top to realize that I was the one who started it a year ago. Since then I've realized what a powerful feature hashtags are in groups.io, with many functions they don't have elsewhere. You can set a thread to time out via a hashtag; you can set a thread to be moderated via a hashtag; you can set a thread to be replied to by mods only via a hashtag; and much more. Here's the documentation:
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On 2/19/2018 9:45 AM, Toby Kraft wrote:
So do we care?
* Well, yes and no. If something were to happen to Mark, the site
would continue as is, at least for a while.
* If I'm losing sleep worrying about the longevity of groups.io,
I'd want to know what the business continuity plan is if Mark is
incapacitated.
* As we've seen with Yahoo and other group sites, a group needs
its own contingency plan too.
Anyway, I'm not losing any sleep and I have backups of key info from my groups. But I am curious what Mark's continuity plan is.
Ditto. I too am concerned about the continuity of IO. If I transfer the group I value the most, I guess a good backup would be to not delete the Yahoo group and just send a dummy message to it now and then to make sure it is still running, or maybe even include the yahoo group as a recipient in messages generated in IO. If IO develops problems then I could notify the members we are moving back to the Yahoo group. Stan
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Yes, it's a very old topic. I had to look up to the top to realize that I was the one who started it a year ago. Since then I've realized what a powerful feature hashtags are in groups.io, with many functions they don't have elsewhere. You can set a thread to time out via a hashtag; you can set a thread to be moderated via a hashtag; you can set a thread to be replied to by mods only via a hashtag; and much more. Here's the documentation: /static/help#hashtags-- J
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Re: After 6 days, still no transfer from yahoogroups
Norm, ?let me add that ( we confirmed) the invitation did go out for transfer to join even though we saw error messages on yahoo?
David Evans Owner Nordhavn 43 Owners Group Co moderator Nordhavn Owners Group PacificNWNordhavns --
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Re: After 6 days, still no transfer from yahoogroups
Hi Norm, Thank you for asking the same question several moderators of other boat owner groups are anxious about.? Looks like quite a que as yahoo slipped up pretty bad with files down for 24 hours, etc. ?
Hopefully an administrator can reassure us that thing are in fact in motion?
David Evans?
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Thank you, I just copied your reply to our Wiki in our Admin group. Very helpful!
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The only thing I can think of is that there is a setting in Admin > Settings on Files. There is a Permissions box. I have mine set to 'Subscribers can view and upload'. You probably already know this.
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On 2/19/2018 6:39 AM, Cherry Delaney via Groups.Io wrote: I have a member who tried to add the minutes to our files but said she did not have permission. I looked everywhere to see how to give her such permission but didn¡¯t find it. Thoughts?
Cherry
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Having been in IT for over 40 years, this is my take on "how does he do it?" and "do we care that it's only Mark?"...
- Mark does not have to go to a half dozen meetings everyday to tell other people what he's doing and hear others bitch about what they are doing.
- Mark obviously has a well defined (well greased) development environment where it's easy to focus on a specific functional area, modify/test changes, and push those changes out to the running site.? (I'd love to look over his shoulder for a while...)
- Mark obviously has a lot of experience with deploying and maintaining a set of servers that work together to make groups.io work.
- Mark takes pride in "his baby" and is committed to having it work "right".
- Mark commented somewhere that the site was paying for itself.
So do we care?
- Well, yes and no.? If something were to happen to Mark, the site would continue as is, at least for a while.
- If I'm losing sleep worrying about the longevity of groups.io, I'd want to know what the business continuity plan is if Mark is incapacitated.
- As we've seen with Yahoo and other group sites, a group needs its own contingency plan too.
Anyway, I'm not losing any sleep and I have backups of key info from my groups.? But I am curious what Mark's continuity plan is. Toby
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Jumping in to an old topic:
I created a hashtag for every menu item on the left menu (calendar, photos, database, etc) that are all a basic color (green) and a ?gray for Admin only.
Our members collect, build and make dollhouses & dollhouse miniatures. We post photos quite often so there¡¯s a color for #lookInPhotos and #PhotoComment (for them to tell what they just posted and others to comment on it after they¡¯ve looked). Everyone knows the albums are listed by their names and alphabetized.
I have one for #accessibility for builders and a different one for each help, helpful hints and glues. One for #Workshops and one for #Shows.
A few weeks ago an older couple that travels to shows across the country (to sell to dealers - for resale in miniature shops) had their motor home and all the merchandise stolen from the motel parking lot. I made a caution tape yellow hashtag #theft. Both to be on the lookout and for the multitude of comments about it.
I find it quite helpful to be organized,
Nancy
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Member Status Info from Transfer
So after a transfer of one of my old groups, I have 400+ moderated members in that group.? So I downloaded the members and imported it into an excel sheet, which exposed a number of things.? So perhaps you owners of some experience can assist to make comments on these statuses. ? ¡¤???????? Post Status 1 indicates "Moderated" members - I have over 400+ in a group after transfer.? Of course, you can't sort by moderated online, so I'd have to parse the spreadsheet to isolate the e-mail addresses if I wanted to purge these members.? I suspect many are no longer active.? Would be nice to have a moderated "button".? I'm guessing that has long ago been requested. ¡¤???????? Post Status 2 indicates "not allowed".? I'm guessing I had trouble with them in the past or it is some code the transferred in weird from Yahoo.? Since I had not don't a "not allowed" in many years at Yahoo groups, I have only a faint recollection.? Like moderated, I'd have to parse the spreadsheet and do a mass removal of those.? Seems to be the right approach. ¡¤???????? Email Delivery - The choices are 0,1,2 & 3.? However, there is a 4 in that column under many member's names.? Any idea what a 4 indicates?? The only place I see a 4 is the User Status column.? I have only 1's in the user status as I've cleared all bounced. ? Comments? Scott Myers
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Re: Subscription Approval Problem
That is the message I received and "subscribed?via web" does appear in Activity log... Yet he did not unsubscribe nor does "left via web" appear in the log.?
In the end, its good now. I was able to send another invitation and the member accepted it this morning and all is well.
From: Shal Farley <shals2nd@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [GMF] Subscription Approval Problem
Kevin, > I have a member who applied for membership, so I tried to reply by > email to approve but the email bounced back. I take it your received a "Subscription Approval Needed" email that you replied to. What error message did the bounce back contain? It is possible for a member who applies via web to open their Subscription Options and Unsubscribe (withdraw their request) before you reply. If he/she did the error response would be: > 500 That subscription no longer exists. Most likely the person decided > to unsubscribe. However the Activity log should then say the member "left via web", sometime after the entry showing his/her application. Too, you would have received a "Subscriber has left" notification, if you have elected to receive such. > Meanwhile in the "Activity" log reads correctly > " johnsmith@... for membership" Does it say "via web"? or "via email"? > So how can approve something I can't see? The real question is whether there was still an pending membership to approve. The error response to your attempted approval by email suggests that was no longer the case. Shal
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Different style of 'via Group.io' / DMARC tagging?
Yesterday I subscribed to my local Freecycle group and this morning I received a message tagged by Gmail in a peculiar way. I'm vaguely familiar with how DMARC works and how Groups.io (and other similar) emails get displayed in Gmail. Most of them come through like this, where the 'via Groups.io' is a discrete field placed after the sender's name, and the 'via' is linked to Google's help doc on DMARC.  But here, the 'via Groups.io' is part of the sender's name, and the Yahoo email address is very funky looking:  Notice how the email address is formatted [USERNAME]@.... Are these both normal, or is the second one unique?? I'm mostly curious, but also wondering if it could be related to this question about Gmail marking posts at 'possibly spoofed', which Shal says he's not seen before:?/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/emails_marked_incorrectly_as/12124257
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Import existing database in group or subgroup
#transfer
Since the transfer process is taking much longer than expected, I decided to manually transfer some content from one of my old YG groups to a new IO subgroup.
Is it possible to import a database in CVS format into the Database section of a group? Or do I have to create a new table and insert each record?
Marina
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After 6 days, still no transfer from yahoogroups
On Feb 13, I created [email protected]? ?I tried several times inviting? [email protected]?to my yahoogroup, mostly got errors. A few times I got the message 1 new member was invited. I'm pretty anxious to migrate my group to , see yahoo group is deteriorating quickly.?
Is there anything I can do to get my group migrated?
Thanks
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Norm Perron
Catalina 42, #600 Aphrodisiac, Marina del Rey, CA
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Re: Mapping users to messages after a YG transfer?
#transfer
Before proceeding with Mark on the complete transfer I had explained what I was doing and asked the YG members after receiving their invitation to put the IO and YG addresses in to the To: field of their posts in order not to loose anything whe we would decide which group to reteain.
It is the IO group we kept and I deleted all posters from the YG (the owner had gone AWOL 12 years ago and I couldn't delete the YG it with my moderator privileges).
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One of the members that are shown in the groups' member list on the web with a [ P ] displays as Post Status 1=Moderated when importing the csvfile to? spread sheet.
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1. Was this ever implemented? 2. How did the first paragraph, below the line (*** ) become indented to highlight it?
Are Files with a hashtag in the description indexed to be included in
a hashtag search? It appears they are not. Should they be?
Oh, that's an interesting idea.So far as I know, only message topics implement the hashtag concept. But extending it to Files and perhaps Photos could be quite useful.
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Under Admin > Settings, scroll down to the Features section and make sure Files is set for "Subscribers can view and upload". Duane -- Help: /static/helpGMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wikiSearch button at the top of Messages list
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 Partially answered my own question. I just noticed the box next to the search link. Problem with that is the post with the number you enter comes up with all the posts after it! What good is that?
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:12 PM, debbie <debbiesther@...> wrote:  Why is it that when I put in a message # into the search field of messages, it comes up with no results? Am I doing something wrong?
I like to be able to direct people to certain messages in the archives. By message # is the easiest way and is the way I used to do it on Yahoogroups.
Debbie
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 Why is it that when I put in a message # into the search field of messages, it comes up with no results? Am I doing something wrong?
I like to be able to direct people to certain messages in the archives. By message # is the easiest way and is the way I used to do it on Yahoogroups.
Debbie
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