Thank you for your response! I don't know if this is going to be a great idea! One of my members thought that I wanted her to leave and unsubbed from my group. She absolutely did not want that in the footers of her email. Can't they just use the hyperlink without the addresses of the recipients??


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You can certainly do that.? BUT, by default, none of the information will be 'owned' by the original poster, it will all be owned by you.? If they've joined the new group using the same email as they had on YG!, it should tie them together.

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Hello,
I'm moving a very old group from Yahoo and want to "weed out" the people who no longer participate, so I'd rather not transfer the members automatically. Can I skip that part of the process and only have Groups.io transfer messages, files and photo's?
With many thanks,
Marga

>>I re-sent invitations for IO (?[email protected]?)?to join again last night.

At this time, it seems the longest wait in the process is for the transfer agent to accept your invitation. Go to the transfer page at?/yahootransfer?and select your group name from the "in-process" pull-down menu. Chances are, there's a boxed message at the top saying "We've received the invite to your group and will accept it soon. There is no need to send another invite."?If so, I suggest you heed that message and wait your turn in the queue.

Once you get the "ready" message (it will arrive to [email protected]), make the agent a Moderator and return to this page to actually get things going (Steps 3 and 4), the transfer should proceed within 24-48 hours.

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There has been a lot of discussion here and on the beta group about having this capability.? For now, most are using the Pending Subscription message, though it does add a step and a bit more work for owners/moderators.

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Yes, that is a great way to do it. It's also sent automatically.

Thanks.

From Michael.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 05:12 am, marty_in_mesa wrote:

I don't seem to find that feature on . is it there and I am missing it?

Are you using the "Pending Subscription" message capability? It is an ideal way of sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Chris

Mark; I don't know if someone has quietly done an edit but when I tried that link from the wiki page (approximately 7 minutes after your post was moderated) it worked as intended.

Chris

A couple of links on the Wiki Home seem to have gotten corrupted recently, so I've fixed them.? The one for Databases should work again.? BTW, anyone can edit a Wiki page, no need to report it, just fix it. ;>)

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In this groups Wiki home page, the link for "Setting up a Database (updated Nov 24, 2016)" takes me to the page for "How To Stop Getting Two Copies Of Emails You Send". It didn't offer very much information or advice about databases on Groups.io. Could someone with Wiki skills perhaps correct the link? It probably doesn't need the "updated" text, either.

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Don,

Thanks for the comprehensive results!

In my opinion, this flow could use use some attention. At the very
least, the user should be told what is, and is not, happening (i.e.
subscription request to the main group, but no request to join the
subgroup).

I concur.

(Personally, I'd prefer that the user need to approve the request to
subscribe to the main group before it's actually made -- maybe he'd
rather not join either if that's the condition.)

That's always the precondition, so I'm inclined to go the other way: try to automate it so that the subgroup request/join completes seamlessly, folding the primary group subscription into the flow.

The question then comes down to how to keep the user properly informed along the way. Perhaps the communications to the user could refer to both in the form of "xyz, a subgroup, and its primary group abc".

Also the initial account email confirmation should not reference the
subgroup, if the subgroup subscription isn't part of the deal.

Agreed, but with a preference that the solution be in the form of making it part of the the deal. I think.

Thoughts?

I think you've established a good base of knowledge for rewriting your "bottom line" in the form of a proposed set of changes to the flow that could be posted in beta. I like to give Mark as detailed a proposal as I can muster, both to be more sure that what I'm proposing is actually reasonable and to (hopefully) make it easier for him to decide to "just do it". ;-)

See also this thread about the same issue:
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/20817618
and the matching beta post:


You could follow up that one or start another.

Shal


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Hooty,

I have 5 Yahoo groups in waiting for about 2 weeks I think. I re-sent
invitations for IO ( [email protected] ) to join again last night.
Seems like either I am doing something wrong or there is a process
failure in another way.

That's Step 2, so I assume you've also taken Step 1 to set up the transfers.
As Gerald mentioned there is a backlog of groups to be transferred, so two
weeks may not be out of line.

If you haven't, see also Bruce's step-by-step process
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/8697
And the additional tips here:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups

I have given the IO groups the same names as the Yahoo groups.

So it looks like you've got Step 0 covered. By the way, it isn't required that you name the groups the same, so if you want to change any now would be the best time.

I notice that your Y!Groups are related in content matter, so I thought I'd mention that it isn't required that there be a 1:1 match-up between Yahoo Groups and Groups.io groups. You can copy two Y!Groups into the same Groups.io group, and you can copy a Y!Group into a subgroup of a Groups.io group. So you have some options there if you want to re-think the structure of your groups.

If you want to make any of those changes you can still do so up until
the time you give the final go-ahead on each group's In Process page (Step 4). There's an update button on the page that will allow you to change your copy options, and I believe that includes the Groups.io
group selection (but not the Y!Group name IIRC).

It is my understanding that when you accept the invitations that I
have sent you, you will notify me so I can make you a moderator.

Please note that GMF is a user-to-user forum - no Groups.io employees here. That said, yes. In Step 3 the transfer agent will send you an email with instructions. And then in Step 4 you use the In Process page for each
Y!Group to tell the transfer agent that you're ready to go.

By the way, you have the word 'clicking' misspelled at
/yahootransfer

Bug reports go to [email protected], and the official suggestion box for Groups.io is the beta group:

Hugs and thanks for any help on my group transfers you can give me.

You're welcome. Feel free to reply back to this group if you have more questions or comments.

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I think the only thing missing is likely patience. The queue is quite long (several weeks) at this time.?Take a scan through recent postings and you'll see that many others are in the same boat.
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Thank you all.?
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Hello, ? I have 5 Yahoo groups in waiting for about 2 weeks I think. I re-sent invitations for IO (?[email protected] )?to join again last night. Seems like either I am doing something wrong or there is a process failure in another way. Any help would be appreciated.? I am wanting to move my files and memberships over for all 5 groups. ? They are: ? ? ? ? ? I have given the IO groups the same names as the Yahoo groups. ? It is my understanding that when you accept the invitations that I have sent you, you will notify me so I can make you a moderator. Then I am to tell you that I have done that and you will then start the transfer of memberships and contents over. Tick tock.lol ---------------------- By the way, you have the word 'clicking' misspelled at /yahootransfer ? Hugs and thanks for any help on my group transfers you can give me. Hooty ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Estelle,

I was unable to enter anything in the blank?Groups.io Group?field, not before and not after the dash (-), nor in the blue drop down field.

As Duane said, that field is a drop-list: you select one of your groups, you don't need to enter (type) anything.



Alas, I couldn't capture a screen-shot of it open, the list closed automatically every time I tried. And besides, you don't need to know all the groups I own... ;-)

The list includes only groups you own (not just moderate), and by "you" I mean you the account (email address) currently logged in to Groups.io. So if you completed Step 0 - create your new Groups.io group - while logged in under a different email address that could explain having an empty list.

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On 6/10/2018 11:56, Shal Farley wrote:

The typical way of scaling such things is to use horizontal scaling
with a load balancer front end that has session traffic marking.

This sounds like a description of inbound load balancing, but I imagine that outbound sort-of mirrors it.

It is.? I wasn't sure how technical the audience is here, so I decided to only post client side of things to avoid confusion.

I know that Yahoo Groups' outbound system sorted the traffic by destination domain and generally sent batches of messages to each domain in order to reduce transaction overhead. They also used a fleet of outbound servers (physical, in the day, possibly virtual later) covering a large number of IP addresses - something Lena has tracked over the years, and which at one time was listed here to help mail services with whitelisting them:


But Groups.io is built out of much more modern stuff (hardware and software), and as yet anyway likely carries much less traffic, so its structure is likely much different.

All of a transaction usually takes only seconds,

Back in March Mark commented that outbound traffic was peaking near 5M messages per day, which is something like 60 per second. So clearly a fair amount of parallelism is required in the transaction handling. And would be anyway, just to avoid stalling on a particularly slow destination server.

Whether that load can be handled in a single modern-day server, or requires multiples, and in the latter case whether the multiples can hide behind some form of edge concentrator to appear as a single outbound IP address is where my curiosity lead.

So, the typical way of doing an outbound server is to have a message queue and the outbound servers grab messages off the queue and send them as fast as they can.? This is to prevent the servers from backing up or flooding their own NICs.

To do what Yahoo! did, just have multiple queues, one for each common domain, where the queues batch messages into tasks that the servers send in single transactions.

To mimic a single IP address just takes a proxy and if all traffic goes through the proxy, then it all has the same IP address.? Of course, care must be taken to not swamp the proxy.

But if there's only been one Groups.io outbound IP then that's not Outlook/HotMail's excuse.

There is nothing Groups.io can do to save MS from itself.? ;)

Best,

Glenn