On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 07:44 am, Marina wrote:

This person is unknown to me, she is not a member of my group (at least, with the name shown in the invitation) and I am not on Linkedin with the +owner address. How is this possible?

Has anyone had a similar experience?

It's just a spammer. It's not that hard to mine groups.io for legitimate addresses. If group "abc" is in the groups.io directory, then by definition abc(plus)owner(at)groups(dot)io is a legitimate email address. Nothing to see here.

Bruce

OK, I guess I was simply logged out.
How can I stay logged in?
And am I logged into a single Group site or Groups.io in general.
I was able to post here because I had already logged back in to one of my groups.
Thanks for your help!
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LinkedIn is one of those annoying sites that seems to use a person's address book to send out "spam".? Based on my experience, it does seem to be one of the few that will honor the unsubscribe link in the email.

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I have set my +owner address to receive all mails so that prospective members can contact me as the group owner even if they are not subscribed yet.
Everything worked fine but in the last days I have received twice to the address +owner an invitation to connect to a person on Linkedin.

This person is unknown to me, she is not a member of my group (at least, with the name shown in the invitation) and I am not on Linkedin with the +owner address. How is this possible?

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Marina

Thanks for the link to the Chrome app for downloading more data fields from Y! group membership.? I'm still curious why the "First Name" and "Last Name" fields shown in the Y! group list aren't included in either of the exports.?
I think I'll update the "Direct Add" wiki page I created to include the link to the chrome app.
I had never cleared "bouncing" members from the Y! group, so I did that prior to initiating the transfer, though I did take an export that included them.? If that will create any kind of an issue during the "easy transfer" of old Y! group content, I could temporarily "Direct Add" them here.
Also, Kudos for making server responses for email non-delivery available - it made my explanation to those affected more convincing.
John

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Dan,

Can someone give me some guidance here on how to set things up so that members can choose on a message by message basis which group of people their reply should go to?

Posting from the group's Messages section, with the group's Reply To option set to Group, and without removing the other options...

After the member clicks Reply on a message there will appear beneath the message composition box both a green Reply to Group button and a grey Private button:




Clicking the Private button changes the destination of the reply and also inserts the word Private: in the subject line:



I recommend checking the BCC Me box, otherwise you won't have a record of the message you sent privately.

Notably this method does not reveal to you, making the reply, the email address of the member who posted the original member. But it does reveal to that member your address, in the From field of the private reply. So that member may reply to you off-list if they choose.

I don't think there is any difference for those members replying via their email when you opt to remove the other options. There the Reply functionality is entirely in the behavior of their email interface.

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John,

I am seeing evidence that in some cases with multiple email addresses
known to the Y! group, the email address that Y! gave me in the export
was not the email address that the Y! group was set to deliver group
messages to.

In the export provided in the Manage Members feature only the second column contains subscription addresses. The first column may contain email addresses, but those are the member's sign-in ID, which is not necessarily the same as their subscription email address. You should disregard any email addresses from the first column.

If so, is there any chance that the "Easy Group Transfer" function
will be able to transfer the Y! group email addresses that were active
delivery addresses in cases of multiple addresses known to the Y!
group?

The transfer agent will only use the proper subscription addresses. It will also skip any of those addresses which have "Bouncing" status.

To emulate that with an export you'd have to also export the Bouncing list, and remove from the complete list those email addresses that appear also in the Bouncing list. What I did in Excel was use a second sheet in the file to hold the Bouncing list, then put a Match() function in a spare column of the full list to identify which are also in the Bouncing list. Then filtering or sorting on that matching column separates out the non-bouncing addresses.

Or... Use the Chrome app to export your Y!Group's member's list. This produces more comprehensive information about each membership, and in particular includes a column that identifies whether the address is bouncing or not. The transfer agent uses access similar to the Chrome app.

Also, FYI, yesterday a large number of @yahoo.com email addresses were
listed in Activity as "bouncing", when quite a few messages had
seemingly been delivered to them properly prior to that. I'm assuming
this is further evidence of Y! mail issues.

I don't use Yahoo Mail (for aught but testing), but I've read others commenting about problems with their account, even sending direct from one Yahoo Mail address to another.

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Nancy,

Re: [GMF] how can I edit messages?

If you want to edit the message content use the More menu, in the bar below the message:




The button you identified is to edit the Topic's subject and properties:

The settings appear to be the same in both groups and my privileges are also the same in both.? One group allows me to edit the messages and the other doesn't.? What am I missing?

In the latter group you appear to be lacking moderator privileges, or perhaps just the Edit Archives privilege. I don't know any other reason a moderator would not be able to edit the topic.

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Tom,

Is there access to the initial email text (the one that starts "Thank
you for your interest") so it can be changed to meet who we use the
system?

If you're referring to the email with the subject line "Confirm Your Groups.io Account", no you cannot. That is a system generated message, a step in the creation of the new user's account.

There is a suggestion in the beta group to improve the wording of that message, if you were thinking of any changes that are group-independent you might chime in there.


What you can do is create a completely customized Welcome notice for new members, on the Member Notices tab of your group's Settings page.

And, if your group has restricted membership, you can create a "Pending Subscription" notice as Bruce suggested. That notice will be sent after the user confirms their account, or confirms their desire to join your group (if the person used the +Subscribe email command).

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Pete,

If I understand correctly based on reading elsewhere in this forum,
when the Yahoo Group transfer finally happens, it shouldn't impact
those already signed up at Groups.io. Am I correct?

That's correct.

And it has a minor consequence: addresses that are already in the Groups.io group will be skipped during the copy operation - which means that their original Y!Group join date, their Delivery setting, and their Posting Privilege won't be copied.

Also, if they sign up at Groups.io using a different email address than they had used in your Y!Group they will end up with two subscriptions, one under each address. Any content they had posted in the Y!Group will be "owned" by the address they had in the Y!Group.

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Duane,

?I thought (and hoped) that was the way it worked, but was proven wrong.? It's a total of # approvals, regardless of rejections/deletions.

Please send that result to [email protected] as a bug - it stands in contradiction to the text on the Settings page:



Note the word "consecutive".

Shal


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Hashtags work fine in private groups, but only members can see the messages, as intended.

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On May 2, 2018, at 3:31 PM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

Click the blue "date" button at the top to change search order. I believe search hits are returned in whatever message ordering you are using at the time.

Thank you, this works. I didn’t see it off to the side.

On May 2, 2018, at 12:31 PM, Sharon Lewis <sklewis43@...> wrote:

Hash. · tag: A word or phrase preceded by a hash mark (#), used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and facilitate a search for it. Whenever a user adds a hashtag to their post, it's able to be indexed by the social network and becomes searchable/discoverable by other users.

This seems only to work if a group is public. It doesn’t work when archives are private.

Sharon
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I am owner of a Yahoo Group that has nearly 600 members. We want to move the group here. I have joined Groups.io, created a group and am following the steps to have the group transferred to this site.

How long will this process take? I sent the invitation to the transfer email several days ago.

Thanks,

Paula