I came searching today. I’m curious what happens if I “like” a message? Does the person know? Do I see I’m not the only one? Who else agreed with the idea in the post??

I know now I replied to an old post but I still would like to know the answers.
Nancy

I am ready to transfer my other group. The transfer form raises some questions. The first two are no doubt evident to many in this group, but I want to make sure.
1. It asks for the name of the groups.io group. I have subgroups. Assume the main group is called Wine and has subgroups. It would be listed in the drop down list when click on the field to enter the group name. I assume Support/Transfer will know Wine is the main group and that its email address is [email protected] and not [email protected]. Correct?
2. I created subgroups but there is nothing from Yahoo that needs to be transferred to the subgroups. They are listed in the drop down list when I click on the field to enter the group name. I assume I just ignore the subgroups and just enter the main group, like I would do above. Is that correct?
3. I see there is now an option to not have the welcome message automatically sent to the members when the transfer is complete. If I understand this correctly, if uncheck this option, it will not send the automated message that gives a member the option to immediately unsubscribe and it will not send the welcome message that I created. Is this correct? If so, this is a great development for two reasons: a) now members will not receive a message that allows them to immediately unsubscribe, and b) I can better control when the members know the transfer had taken place so that I can better coordinate the shutting down (not allowing members to post) of Yahoo and members knowing to now post in the IO group.
4. The first sentence of step 4 says: "Come back here, select your transfer, and tell us that you are ready for the transfer to happen." I am confused by this. Is this a holdover from the previous method to start the transfer by sending a message to [email protected] that is no longer needed because of the new form? If I understand the new procedure, all I do is create the group (which has been done), make [email protected] a moderator with all moderator privileges unchecked (which I will do), and then just submit the new form. I no longer send an email message to Support or [email protected] that the Yahoo group is ready to be transferred. Correct?
Stan

In my group we ask prospective members a short introduction in order to be approved.
I have sent a message to a Pending Member through her Member's Page asking her to introduce herself, but the message sent does not show anywhere.
Neither in the Pending Member's page nor in my personal Activity History.
A couple of moderators had the same experience with other PM as well.

We are wondering if messages sent via web to Pending Members actually reach them. We have not clear how Owner's Messages work and what is meant to be stored under the tab Owner's Messages.

Thank you for your help.
Marina

Deb wanted: ?"I'd like to block viewing of some messages without actually deleting them. The example is blocking a discussion from being read after the fact except by the subgroup moderator."

I saw that there is a duration hashtag. I don't know if it works the way I thought it should - still testing with Deb's help.
As I mentioned, Help says: Automatic time-out: If a hashtag’s Topic Duration is set, topics tagged with it will be deleted (or, if specified, locked) after that period of time. This can be a useful feature when a topic will be obsolete after a certain amount of time, for example messages about items for sale.

The question has absolutely nothing to do with hashtags (although hashtags can be set to lock a topic).

Topics (not individual messages) can be locked by clicking on the dropdown arrow at the bottom of the topic in the topics list, and clicking on "Lock topic"; or by clicking on any individual message within the topic, clicking "More," and clicking on "Lock topic."
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J

Hi, I have just started a Group, but cannot find anywhere to put a message to those requesting to join, or, to make a welcome message to those that have been approved.

Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks, Tim

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No but good suggestion for beta. Currently you have to look at one of the activity logs.

Locking doesn't do that - I believe it prevents others posting to that thread.
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/4550596#1536
The Help says: Locked: If a hashtag is set to Locked, topics tagged with it will be locked upon creation. However in the Help, I see this that is more what you are looking for, I think:
Automatic time-out: If a hashtag’s Topic Duration is set, topics tagged with it will be deleted (or, if specified, locked) after that period of time. This can be a useful feature when a topic will be obsolete after a certain amount of time, for example messages about items for sale.
Source: ?/static/help

BTW, there is also "moderate topic" which means that an unmoderated group can have a topic that is not a free-for-all!

Frances

Locking only prevents additional posts, it doesn't change the display of the Topic.

Duane
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It's not included in the header, which I think it was on YG, but you can search in the activity log (Admin > Activity) for "Approved pending message" in either the All Activity or Moderator Activity lists.

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Hello,
I'm the IO manager for my group. I noticed that there is a Lock Topic option in messages. Where can I find info on this?

I'd like to block viewing of some messages without actually deleting them. The example is blocking a discussion from being read after the fact except by the subgroup moderator. Would locking a topic do this?
TIA,
Deb Claffey
New England Wax

My group has 4 moderators.? Is there an easy way by looking at a message to determine who approved / moderated the message?

Thank you.

Yup. I'm sure someone initially thought it an immensely clever play on the 'C' programming language - but it introduced a lot of confusion owing to the world not being entirely ready for Unicode, and particularly not in programming languages that want to be portable.

Actually it is quite clever, and less a play on the 'C' programming than the 'C++' language. You can compose two plus characters into a hash symbol with just a little imagination, and a hash symbol looks pretty much like a sharp symbol, but C-sharp sounds much more interesting than C-hash. This is supported by the fact that Microsoft introduced a J++ language in the 90's, which was their implementation of Java with some interesting extensions, and that also led to a J# (J-sharp) around the same time as C#.

I don't recall it causing much confusion, but that discussion might take us too far off topic!

Richard

Jim,

Yes, OK. I can't see the sharp sign symbol in your message, just the
dreaded square box, but following your link shows it.

Hmm... The square box implies to me that your email interface recognized that it was a Unicode character, but didn't have that character available in the font used for displaying the message. Possibly you could see it if you can switch display fonts?

If your interface couldn't handle Unicode at all you would, I think, have been shown a sequence of three upper-rank characters. I can say that because I relatively recently switched from Eudora Classic, which did not support Unicode.

The use of C# (pronounced "see sharp") to name the programming
language just adds to that confusion.

Yup. I'm sure someone initially thought it an immensely clever play on the 'C' programming language - but it introduced a lot of confusion owing to the world not being entirely ready for Unicode, and particularly not in programming languages that want to be portable.

I must remember to use the appropriate numeric code if I ever want to
use a sharp sign in HTML!

In the Miscellaneous Symbols block, ♯ at your service.

Shal


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David . . .


On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 09:05:39 -0500 (EST), "David P. Dillard"
<jwne@...> wrote:

There is no discussion group network that has a guaranteed safety program
for continued existence as far as I know.

While I expect few, if any here to do this, you could get your own web
hosting, install a free Listserv or Majordomo software package, and
run your own.

It won't have the easy access to pictures, files, etc., but you can
add that, too, if you wish if you design your own web site or have
someone add those features for you, as you can do that with a web
hosting service.

An alternative is to run a BBS type group using phpBB (free) software.
I set one of these up for an aquatic plants/aquarium group, and we had
a web designer who donated her time to do that web site part of it for
other features. It worked well, but eventually the group fell apart
and I believe the site was let go.

But if you have paid web hosting and you care enough to do it, have
the ability or available talent to do it, you can have complete
control over a email-only group (with an optional web site component).
You make backups of everything periodically and don't trust backups
completely to the web hosting company. That way, you avoid what
happened to those Listserv groups when 2 years of posts were deleted.

I doubt most here want to put that much effort into such a thing, but
it is an option. Otherwise, we resort to places like YG! and
groups.io. And for many here who moved or are thinking of moving from
YG! to IO, they want a similar experience as that seen on YG!, and IO
offers that to your members.

Donald


The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who
speak it. --Selwyn Duke

ken,

On the old list, new members were moderated until they had one post
approved, supposedly.

As Duane said, there never was a setting in Yahoo Groups to automatically unmoderate after a given number of posts - that had to be done by the group moderators.

Instead YG had changed hundreds of list members to Override-moderated

They weren't changed, that's how their membership began. In a Yahoo Group the "Moderated for new members" means literally that new members are put on the moderated override, but the group is unmoderated for those members set to "Default group policy".

and as such they were profiled on groups.io None were transferred as
new members moderated until approval.
...
I'm helping out and was not a list member prior to the transfer, but
although the list owners said new members were automatically moderated
until the first approved post, that information did not show on the YG
list membership or the new membership on groups.io

Correct. Because there is no equivalent Posting Privilege setting for a Y!Group member.

At this point I can just leave them permanently moderated or I can
change them to default group.

I would take the lazy way out. Leave them as is for now, but if and when one of them posts change that one at that time. That would be effectively what the Y!Group moderators would have to have been doing. So it would be a familiar procedure for them.

But I would go ahead and set the Groups.io group with New user moderation going forward. You can explain to the former Y!Group mods that the members who join at Groups.io will be handled automatically, but they will still need to manually handle the members who transferred in from the Yahoo Group.

Shal


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I have to thank Mark for transferring my group from YahooGroups to Groups.io so well. In 48 hours from sending the request to move, all the members and messages had moved over. This was elation tinged with some concern as the main thrust of the group is in its files and photos. My mods team immediately rallied round and suggested these could be transferred manually if they all took a chunk of them to work on. I sat tight and hoped Mark would be able to have a second go. Lo and behold this? morning all the files and photos had made it ...

I cannot thank Mark enough for what he has achieved for my group which has been going for almost 16 years on YahooGroups and has built up a considerable resource of material. We almost broke out the champagne but opted for a bottle of red instead!

Members are delighted with the change and many have posted for the first time in a long time to say how easy they are finding their way around and how smoothly the transfer has gone.

From a mightily relieved (and apologies for the long message)
Margaret